APM News

Earlier this month we had the great pleasure of hosting Dr Phil Driver, founder of OpenStrategies, who delivered two excellent events at Newcastle University Business School.

The Board of APM is delighted to announce that John McGlynn has accepted its invitation to remain as chair.

On the evening of the 26th April at BAWA in Bristol, around 60 excited sponsors, customers, mentors and team members attended the fourth South Wales and West of England (SWWE) Project Management Challenge Finals and Awards Night with four down-selected teams competing for the winner’s trophy.

The APM Aberdeen chapter hosted another successful CPD event on 17 May 2018, which included a very insightful talk by Paul Foy (Value Performance Ltd), asking the question “So you think you understand risk?”.

Prepared by members of the APM Assurance Specific Interest Group and led by Roy Millard.

The APM Project Management Awards, sponsored by RPC UK Ltd, are now open for 2018 and the hunt is on for our profession’s finest.

In many ways there’s never been a better time to be a contractor in project management: the 2018 APM Salary and Market Trends Survey showed confidence and satisfaction levels were high, day rates had remained at an average £450 and more people were working on longer-term contracts that offer greater stability.

The Register of Chartered Project Professionals is now open.

The Association for Project Management [APM] has welcomed Dame Judith Hackitt’s Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety.

Every year lots of surveys tell us the same things, some of us have been reading for the last 40 years, that more projects fail than succeed.