Reimagine your project data to eliminate bias and maximise success Blog
Whether we like it or not, data sits at the heart of everything we do in project management.
Threats and opportunities in the risk management of projects Blog
Project risk management helps with achieving project objectives, especially those concerning cost and time.
Is your project effectively efficient? Blog
Is the question of whether your project is effectively efficient one that you have considered? If the answer is no, you are not alone, but effectiveness and efficiency need to be uppermost in your mind from the inception of your project and throughout its life cycle.
Understanding your project mission: what to achieve and why Blog
By now, you've hopefully become familiar with the Army's mission planning tool from my last blog.
How value management has the tools to solve your project problems Blog
Projects large and small can benefit from clarification of their objectives and the development of a robust framework for making key decisions.
How do you get to work in a PMO? Blog
The APM PMO Specific Interest Group (SIG) wanted to discover how people get into a career in project, programme or portfolio management offices (PMOs).
How to make a data project a success Blog
Despite significant advancements in project management theory over the past 50 years, we continue to see projects that are held back by a number of issues, and data seems to be a core part of this.
Is stakeholder engagement pointless? Blog
APM’s People Specific Interest Group (SIG) has stakeholder engagement as one of its work streams and, in line with the overall SIG, the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG) is looking to ‘positively disrupt’ the status quo, as it moves discussions forward on relevant topics.
How to execute a project successfully Blog
Getting on with it.
Bent Flyvbjerg’s secrets of project success Blog
Megaproject expert Professor Bent Flyvbjerg’s new book, How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration, digs deep into what makes major projects a success and how these factors can be replicated across any project, no matter what size.
Reimagine your project data to eliminate bias and maximise success
Whether we like it or not, data sits at the heart of everything we do in project management.
Threats and opportunities in the risk management of projects
Project risk management helps with achieving project objectives, especially those concerning cost and time.
Is your project effectively efficient?
Is the question of whether your project is effectively efficient one that you have considered? If the answer is no, you are not alone, but effectiveness and efficiency need to be uppermost in your mind from the inception of your project and throughout its life cycle.
Understanding your project mission: what to achieve and why
By now, you've hopefully become familiar with the Army's mission planning tool from my last blog.
How value management has the tools to solve your project problems
Projects large and small can benefit from clarification of their objectives and the development of a robust framework for making key decisions.
How do you get to work in a PMO?
The APM PMO Specific Interest Group (SIG) wanted to discover how people get into a career in project, programme or portfolio management offices (PMOs).
How to make a data project a success
Despite significant advancements in project management theory over the past 50 years, we continue to see projects that are held back by a number of issues, and data seems to be a core part of this.
Is stakeholder engagement pointless?
APM’s People Specific Interest Group (SIG) has stakeholder engagement as one of its work streams and, in line with the overall SIG, the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG) is looking to ‘positively disrupt’ the status quo, as it moves discussions forward on relevant topics.
How to execute a project successfully
Getting on with it.
Bent Flyvbjerg’s secrets of project success
Megaproject expert Professor Bent Flyvbjerg’s new book, How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration, digs deep into what makes major projects a success and how these factors can be replicated across any project, no matter what size.
A guide to the Specific Interest Groups
APM Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) have an important role to play within APM.
Videos from the Contracts and Procurement Guide
As you are probably aware, the long awaited ‘APM Guide to Contracts and Procurement’ was launched in July 2017 at a conference in London.
How to ensure effective project performance reporting webinar
Every project needs an appropriate framework in place to manage its performance effectively.
Professional curiosity and building trust with stakeholders
What role does professional curiosity have in project management? Is it our responsibility to be curious, enquiring and inquisitive when dealing with stakeholders? Do we share information about what we’re seeing, information that might be outside the immediate scope of our roles, so that patterns of adverse behaviour might be spotted or early warnings of disgruntled stakeholders might be acted on? What are the risks of team members not being professionally curious? This is the theme in October’s “Useful Links” from the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG).
Cross-organisational change in a complex environment webinar - A case study in gaining engagement, 12 September 2017
It is generally accepted that ‘Engagement’ , and a good understanding of the need for change are critical ingredients for successful and sustainable change.
Cross-organisational change in a complex environment webinar: A case study in gaining engagement
It is generally accepted that ‘Engagement’ , and a good understanding of the need for change are critical ingredients for successful and sustainable change.
Have your say: Take the NBS National BIM Survey
APM is pleased to once again support NBS, the leading global provider of technical information, specification and BIM tools in their latest survey.
The future of knowledge management conference
Our annual APM Knowledge SIG conference on Thursday 6 July 2017 was a roaring success! The theme for the day was the future of KM, with a focus on what the future might mean for the P3M profession.
Welcome to the International Edition of the APM PMO SIG Newsletter!
This quarter the PMO SIG has gone international to find the latest news, events, and PMO Wisdom.
We are all different but that's ok: how to get the best out of a diverse team
On 28 June 2017, John Hardwick (MoreFrom Coaching) gave an excellent talk about the Diversity within teams in Bristol, how to identify what characteristics individuals have and how having a range of these within a team leads to success.