APM Blogs

Every project manager – especially those who are at an early stage in their career – knows that engaging with stakeholders can be daunting.

I’ve been in environments where everything looked fine until it really wasn’t.

There is one item you will never see on any meeting agenda, yet it has the potential to be the most important factor on your project.

Psychological safety has a strange reputation in projects.

Politics can be frustrating and is often counterproductive.

During a recent keynote, speaker Karen Blackett spoke about building your own “Avengers” — the people who support your growth, challenge your thinking and encourage you to step forward when opportunities arise.

How do we, as organisations, regardless of whether we are public or private sector, achieve real value?  This article will make the case that sustained stewardship and the patience to see things through, as well as ongoing benefits tracking and intervention well beyond ‘Gate 5’.

By the time stress and burnout took over my life, I couldn’t remember a time when I wasn’t stressed – when there wasn’t a deadline looming, a problem to solve or a decision that couldn’t wait.

The Home Office’s Hendon Evolution Programme won APM’s 2025 Digital and Technology Project of the Year Award.

In April 2025, I attended a national event focused on how organisations plan to upskill people for greener jobs.