APM Blogs

A project management endeavour often feels like an expedition seeking to find a safe route through unknown territory.

I guess some of my readers are thinking that this is like asking why day follows night, but recent research is digging deeper into the underlying causes.

One of the many advantages of working within a project team is that it offers access to diversity in numerous dimensions.

Are you a project manager or are you an entrepreneur? The chances are thats a question that you havent asked yourself until this moment.

Ancient ideas, modern problemsFeng shui is an ancient Chinese belief that the way we organise our physical environment can have an impact on our well being and life prospects.

There is a new trend beginning to emerge among some of our clients who are running multiple business change programmes.

Is it just me, or is the agile bandwagon getting a bit out of control? Dont get me wrong, I think agile thinking has a lot going for it and its a valuable addition to the project management toolbox and the skill set of project managers.

What can be learnt from the programming geeks who adopted the Agile Manifesto and rewrote the rule book on IT project management? The move to being “agile” has up to now been a grassroots movement.

Project managers do not spend enough time thinking about the quality or the impact of their decisions and very little training is available.

With the APM Awards about to take place I wonder how much customer satisfaction plays a role in the selection of the winners.