APM Blogs

The Cloud isn’t weightless.

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

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.

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.

Clarity is fundamental to being a leader, believes Dave Corbin ChPP, Gleeds’ first ever Chief Project Delivery Officer.

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

Project Editor Emma De Vita goes backstage at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London to find out what it takes to run a programme of renewal projects that will return London’s prestigious cultural institution to the top of its technical game.

England hosted the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup last year.

Eddy Datubo FAPM, Director of Transformation at the BBC (and Project Big Interview in our spring 2026 issue), tackled the hot topic of high-performing project teams at the APM Project Management Conference 2026.

Are you the one who brings people together, interprets the bigger context and quietly repairs the fractures that could derail progress? Do you see yourself as someone who cultivates strong relationships, understands the broader organisational landscape and bridges the gaps to keep projects moving? In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this once invisible work has suddenly become the thing that actually delivers results.