As APM begins a new era as a Chartered body, Project looks at what the new status means and talks to a number of other professional bodies about their own experiences as a maturing Chartered profession At the APM Project Management Conference in April, APM President David Waboso spoke about the importance of the award of a Royal Charter for developing the profession.
APM is pleased to working in partnership with the Global Alliance for the Project Professions (GAPPS) as they present their upcoming GAPPs Thought leadership Forum (TLF), set to take place Monday 26 to Tuesday 27 June 2017.
The theme of this year’s Volunteers Week (1 – 7 June) is ‘You make the difference’ and now that APM is the Chartered body for the project profession, the role of our volunteers is even more vital in supporting our ambitious new strategy.
What is portfolio management and why is it important? Following the success of their sold out conference and the release of the first of their new thought leadership series, the Portfolio SIG treated Thames Valley members to a lively session on portfolio management and why it is important.
Harvey Starns provided an enthusiastic presentation covering a variety of areas of adopting agile to the Scotland branch on 25 May 2017 in Edinburgh .
The London branch ran its AGM on 24th May 2017.
Martin Gosden, the branch Chairman, conducted a brisk AGM, introduced the committee, got agreement of the 2016 AGM minutes, reviewed the past year and looked forward to the next.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hong Kong branch was held in the evening of 23rd May 2017 at the Wharney Guang Dong Hotel, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
The APM National Conference for Women in Project Management 2017, sponsored by BAE Systems, is just a few months away and the early bird special rate ends in one weeks time.
Welcome to the Late Spring edition of the APM PMO SIG Newsletter! In this issue of the newsletter we share some more news about our Machiavellian plans for PMOs to dominate the world (oops, we meant “for PMOs to become critical in the project management world!”) and share amazing news about our annual conference and the newly created APM PMO of the Year Award – that’s right, we finally made it! Together with information on how to join us as a committee member and all wrapped up with a dose of the hot topics from around the industry, including books you should put in your holidays’ to-read list and events you should attend.
