APM Blogs

Projects are journeys - they have roadmaps, milestones, directions, delays and uncertainty.

Remote project teams have not made leadership harder.

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.

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’s nothing personal.

“When individuals have the confidence and tools to share their brilliance, amazing things happen.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to draft plans, summarise meetings and automate workflows, the project profession may be asking the wrong skills question.

The first time I recognised I was being mentored happed at sea on a submarine.

As project professionals in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, we work alongside colleagues from across the globe, delivering some of the world's most ambitious programmes.

Every organisation has a mission – however, there is often a significant gap between strategic ambition and practical delivery, writes Professor Adam Boddison OBE.