APM News

At the beginning of March, when life was still relatively normal, the latest edition of the North-West Branch awards evening was held at Manchester University.

Association for Project Management (APM), has issued a call to people working in project management to share their thoughts on the findings of its new Salary and Market Trends Survey 2020 and their predictions for the year ahead, in light of the global outbreak of COVID-19.

Stakeholder engagement (not management) is one of the factors considered to be critical for project success, yet it is under-represented in the bodies of knowledge and other “best practice” standards and methodologies.

Benefits feature prominently in business cases and gateway reviews, but do they happen in reality? And why does anyone care?195 attendees joined the webinar on Thursday 26 March 2020, and the results include contributions from 108 people who participated live using Mentimeter.

The University of South Wales, Newport Campus, hosted a motivational presentation from the APM Young Professional of the Year 2017, David Cross on the 19 February 2020.

In this webinar presented on Tuesday 24 March 2020 Jane shared experiences of creating an effective remote working culture; making remote working work, fast and sustainably.

Project Manager to Leader (a taster session) was the theme for Russel Jamieson’s session with our branch in Newcastle on Tuesday 10 March 2020.

The majority of project professionals in the UK, from across industry sectors, have already seen their main projects affected as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak, Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered body for the project profession, can reveal.

  Helping others during the coronavirus outbreak is a project – one that has real social benefits by Debbie Dore, APM chief executive I am sure for you, like me, it is hard to comprehend how much life is changing and how we will all need to adapt and support each other.

The Branch was delighted to have worked with the Women in Project Management, WiPM) SIG to organise this event to celebrate International Women’s Day on the 12th March in Bristol.