APM Blogs

Gender inequality is a problem that impacts on all sectors.

National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2018 starts on 5 March.

RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and APM have jointly commissioned a Stakeholder Engagement guidance note on this critical aspect of project management.

Causing confusion over customersThere is much written about the importance of stakeholder engagement and management, and in most cases it is right failure to engage with just one key stakeholder can undermine even the most well-defined and organised programme.

Achieving excellence in project management adds tremendous advantages to the individuals and the organisation as well as to the clients and stakeholders.

What turns a normal human being into a project manager?After 20 years of doing the job, I have sometimes wondered what turns a normal human being into a project manager.

Agile is here to stay for some it may look like a fad, but there is clear momentum around the need to adopt a more flexible mind-set when initiating innovation projects, especially in IT and fast moving technology-driven markets.

The number of projects undertaken in volatile, uncertain, complex or ambiguous (VUCA) environments is forecast to increase, but standard project management methods are often unsuccessful for these.

We recently launched the first in our Body of Knowledge-inspired book series Engaging stakeholders.

Anyone planning a Christmas get together of chief project officers (CPOs) will have to do a lot of clicking and squinting on LinkedIn to find enough people to fill the dancefloor.