Welcome to the latest edition of the APM Portfolio Management SIG newsletter Introduction by the SIG Chairs Firstly, welcome from your new Co Chairs, Lynne Ratcliffe and Steve Leary.
Heritage projects don’t come much bigger than making an addition to Westminster Abbey, as Michael Poulard relates The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries wowed the crowds when they opened at Westminster Abbey in June.
Why the 1970s was the age of the mega-project – although you would not have heard it described as such at the time… By Ben Hargreaves Many giant projects from the 1970s had unprecedented complexity and unparalleled ambition.
It is the board, as the apex of governance, that must create and maintain a culture that drives and supports active sponsorship of projects, writes Martin Samphire Every year, surveys tell us that more change projects fail than succeed.
“Originally, I wanted to be an air hostess when I left school,” Donna Unitt says.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the APM Women in Project Management Specific Interest Group (WiPM SIG), and the project management profession has evolved greatly during that time.
Imagine a world where we could predict future project performance, head off risks before they escalate and improve certainty of forecasts.
The current higher education context is complex, changing and challenging.
Physics is all about change.
… and they’ll do the job.
