APM Blogs

To race direct a half marathon  Vicky Bodman ChPP uses her project management skills in her role as Chair of Avon Valley Runners and Race Director for the AVR Wiltshire Half Marathon.

Extroversion can be a powerful asset for project managers, helping them build relationships, spot tensions and keep teams energised under pressure.

Summer is the season when even your inbox seems to take annual leave.

Clarity in project management doesn’t usually show up at the beginning.

At some point in many project management careers, a thought quietly creeps in during a Monday morning meeting, while updating a RAID log for the hundredth time, or somewhere between stakeholder escalations and back-to-back calls: “I think I need a new job.

Will the temptation of artificial intelligence (AI) make us lazy? Before we know it, might our mental muscles atrophy and our ability to think critically diminish until we’ve lost our human edge? It might be an extreme take on the revolution we are living through, but it’s a real concern as we travel further down our collaborative journey with AI.

A £6bn+ bill for cancelled government projects sounds like another public-sector failure.

Programme management has changed.

Infrastructure has a central role in enabling economic growth and improving connectivity.

Project environments are unpredictable; resilience doesn’t have to be.