APM Blogs

In my last blog I talked about the pain points facing project managers within their organisations in terms of project and resource management.

Communication folk know they should plan, but the challenges of doing so in fast moving environment can be off putting and of course we all know that failing to plan is planning to fail! Well now Dutch Professor Betteke van Ruler has got us thinking about how to apply agile thinking to communication planning.

In my last post I talked about how to identify risks on a project and how to ensure the risks were specific to the project and not general business-as-usual risks.

You're only worth as much as someone is prepared to pay for you.

Last year was a record year for female candidates sitting the APMP: APM’s Project Management Qualification.

The only reason organisations exist is to meet the needs of stakeholders.

Constancy of purposeThe first of 14 steps that management must take according to Deming [the guru of modern management methods and quality] is to create constancy of purpose toward the improvement of product and service.

The government wants all publicly procured construction projects with a value greater than £5m to use Level 2 building information modelling (BIM) by 2016.

Leadership makes or breaks complex projects.

In October last year, Microsoft and Gold partner Wellingtone invited five customers from different sectors/industries for a workshop in London to trial Microsoft Project Online and investigate if this solution helps them to resolve some of the key pain points they are currently facing within their organisations in terms of project and resources management.