APM Blogs

Stepping into a new project, presenting to senior management or taking on greater responsibility can be an exciting opportunity for growth.

Long-term projects, from cathedral builds to nuclear fusion, show how leaders must combine purpose, progress and adaptability to keep people committed to work that may outlast them.

Programme Manager Glen Kelly tells the story of the state-of-the-art R&D facility for the  UK’s live performance industry that is tucked away in Yorkshire town.

Someone's tasked you with the benefits documentation for a programme.

In my day job, I manage consumer complaints data across five European manufacturing sites, which means I spend much of my time turning numbers into dashboards.

Governance has always been important and after hosting a recent webinar, it reinforced something that I have been observing for some time: governance in 2026 is becoming less about structures and processes and more about the quality of decisions, behaviours and organisational culture.

Who better to talk moonshot projects than NASA’s acting Chief Programme Management Officer? Emma De Vita picks his brain  Kevin Gilligan sits in his office at NASA’s HQ in Washington DC, surrounded by space-related paraphernalia and with a poster of Saturn tacked up behind him (it’s exactly how I’d imagined).

It might seem an impossible luxury when you’re caught up in the busyness of daily life, but the practice of regularly taking time out for reflection is exactly the kind of thing that will help your professional development.

Consider the scenario: an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool flags a supplier as high risk, and the project drops them.

“It’s nothing personal.