If you’ve wondered what the journey to becoming a project manager really entails, the benefits of mentoring or the importance of research in the profession, then this is for you.
Trying to predict the outcome of a project a couple of months down the line during the initial planning phase can sometimes feel like trying to predict the weather on a specific day in the next season, in a different country.
In his recent post ‘How to give back to the profession’ long-time volunteer Russel Jamieson called for new passionate members to join APM’s Volunteering Steering Group (VSG) and add “some positive disruption” to the role.
How inclusive is your project? We rarely ever are quizzed about this.
There is always a risk that a learning and development programme that is not properly planned ends up being a tick-box exercise that adds little or no value for organisations or for people.
It’s not often an economics story makes the headlines but as we start 2022, inflation is a lead news item.
Setting achievable project goals has always been a problem.
Four thousand weeks.
While researching my previous blog on why the ‘why’ of a project often goes missing, it was notable that another ‘P word’, planning, kept coming up.
Learning can be a tricky thing no matter what stage we’re at in our career, especially when we have to do this by ourselves.