When most people think about project management, they imagine teams, milestones and Gantt charts; not snowstorms, sub-zero temperatures and dragging 100+ kg sledges across the most remote continent on Earth.
Project managers today face increasing pressure to deliver not only on scope, time and cost, but also on values.
Emma Maguire started her career in marketing and product in BT’s consumer arm.
Service leavers often talk about moving into project management when they transition out of the military, but the truth is, they have likely been managing projects for a number of years already.
Leadership in project management is a hot topic, so who better to give advice on the subject than Dr Paul Chapman, Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and Gordon MacKay, Project Management Capability Lead at Sellafield, who also provided subject specialist knowledge for a new APM Learning module on leadership of self The new module explores steps you can take to become more self-aware and outlines how this will help you develop the ability to lead others.
Oil and gas sites are unlike typical construction environments.
For Sachia Thompson ChPP, project management has always been about more than process or performance metrics – it’s about purpose, she says.
When you’re shouldering responsibility for successful delivery, keeping to budgets and satisfying stakeholders – all while being buffeted by any number of unexpected hiccups – self-confidence is a must for project professionals.
When it comes to your career, what wouldn’t you give to go back to the start and tell your younger self what you should do differently? If only you’d said yes to those opportunities that you later regretted turning down or spoken up in meetings with ideas you were too shy to mention.
As a project professional, you need to be a clear communicator.