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  Welcome to the autumn 2019 edition of the APM Governance SIG newsletter Contents Welcome message from our Chair Your committee SIG strategy and plan Sponsor survey Current publications 1.

As the chartered body for the project profession, Association for Project Management (APM) is used to creating and upholding leading standards.

In a departure from our normal type of events, Jenny Cook, Director of Wish Granting for Make a Wish UK came to talk to us about How to Make a Wish Come True, the power of project management on 15th October at BAWA.

Why do some teams consistently deliver a high level of performance while other seemingly identical teams struggle? This was the subject of research led by Sandy Pentland at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Human Dynamics Laboratory in 2012.

A series of cavernous aircraft hangars on a former RAF base a few miles west of York might seem an unlikely location for a business at the cutting edge of project management.

Borrowing Silicon Valley’s Objectives and Key Results approach to strategy to manage your own portfolio will allow your projects to flex and adapt, says John McIntyre.

Tim Banfield considers the why and how of apologising well, while Dee Tamlin enjoys Matthew Syed’s treatise for cognitive diversity   ✶✶✶✶✶ I first came across Matthew Syed when he closed the 2015 APM annual conference.

Space missions are the ultimate projects.

In APM’s glossary of project management terminology, a programme is defined as “a group of related projects” that are “undertaken to achieve beneficial change”.

Craig Scott started his career in project management aged just 16, when he began as a project management apprentice at BAE Systems.