APM Blogs

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.

Sharon Davies led the implementation of the MOD project that won APM’s 2025 Transformation Project of the Year Award.

Project managers influence their teams’ culture more than you might think.

Over the past couple of decades, experience and research have revealed that, without an effective initiation, programmes fail to achieve their goals, often devolving into chaos, leading to budget and schedule overruns.