APM News

The Association for Project Management (APM) has launched the consultation phase for the updating of the APM Body of Knowledge to its seventh edition.

Welcome to the Winter edition of the APM Portfolio Management SIG newsletter Introduction by the SIG Chairs On behalf of the Portfolio Management SIG committee we hope you have had a good start to 2018 and that this will be another year of progress for everyone.

The APM Assurance SIG is going to initiate a piece of work to establish whether there needs to be a different type of assurance for projects and programmes, specifically created to deliver business change, as compared with those created for delivery and use of tangible assets/ products.

In the latest edition of Project, we hear from rising star Fiona Barry; watch out for your copy.

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In Summer 2014 Phil Driver, first introduced APM to PRUB-thinking, following the publication of his book "Validating Strategies: Linking Projects and Results to Uses and Benefits", which neatly boils down to:‘Organisations run Projects to produce Results which customers and citizens Use to create Benefits’ On a visit to the UK in November 2015, Phil spoke at several events, and ran workshops that provided compelling and controversial evidence that most strategies have little or no impact! However, by using his method it is possible to craft validated strategies that work in practice time and time again.

The government-backed Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network (ADCN) has announced a growth in organisations joining its membership network and committing to apprenticeship diversity.

“We choose to go to the moon, in this decade…”: those now immortal words of President Kennedy sparkled across my childhood.

The Northern Ireland branch January event gave an introduction to the use of drones and the legal requirements which need to be taken into account when their use is being considered by project managers.

Our latest #PMOWisdom interview focuses on PMO and unearthing it's value with Hussain Bandukwala, the Founder and Chief PMO Coach Parwaaz Consulting in Toronto, Canada.