When Ian Cribbes took over the project management for the conservation work on St Edburg’s Church in Bicester, Oxfordshire, he did not realise how different it would be from the projects and programmes he had managed for more than 30 years at BAE Systems.
Ben Hargreaves speaks to the health and safety lead for an award-winning project in the energy construction sector Last year, the Western Link High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Interconnector scheme scooped both the Shell HSSE award at the APM Project Management Awards and a British Safety Council Sword of Honour – and with good reason.
I’m attracted to the dynamic aspect of working on projects, but the pressure of delivery affects me and I invariably end up overworking myself.
After 10 years of the Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) – which looks across an organisation at how it delivers projects, programmes and portfolios – it is worth asking some questions.
Projects and programmes are becoming bigger and more complex, and are spanning longer timescales.
“There’s nowhere else like London.
Here’s a troubling set of numbers.
Leadership is such an interesting and evocative abstract noun.
Passport blues When it emerged that our new post-Brexit blue passports are to be printed not in the UK but by Franco-Dutch owned Gemalto, it generated a media storm, questions in Parliament, and the possibility of a protest by the unsuccessful bidder, a reminder that you can’t please everybody all the time.
The APM Enabling Change SIG and the PMO SIG partnered together for an afternoon event, to address the subject of change and how it can impact those involved in the change themselves.
