APM Blogs

A healthy project culture depends on people being willing to raise risks, challenge assumptions and deliver uncomfortable truths.

Emma De Vita meets the first CEO of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority.

The hidden vulnerability in multi-partner research programmes Multi-partner funded research programmes share a structural vulnerability that nobody talks about at the kick-off meeting.

Over time, the concept of Agile delivery has been diluted by a proliferation of buzzwords, antipatterns, miss-selling and bad habits.

John McNeill ChPP reflects on leadership, learning and delivering the once-in-a-generation Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme.

How should we think about artificial intelligence (AI)? How should we use it in our work? Chinny Francis, Policy Programs Manager at Meta, spoke about blending AI with human experience at the 2026 APM Project Management Conference.

In occupied refurbishment projects, communication is not a soft skill or an administrative task — it is a critical programme control.

Which comes first: the happy team or the high-performing one? For decades, we assumed that hire smart, set key performance indicators (KPIs) and define roles, then performance would follow.

The Cloud isn’t weightless.

Politics, whether at a national or a team level, has an impact on every project, especially major government ones, but if infighting and manoeuvring are polluting yours, remember: sunlight is the best disinfectant, writes Richard Young More than 30 years ago, Jeffrey Pinto, Professor of Management at The Pennsylvania State University, wrote a paper about the value of politics to project managers.