APM wins at Association Excellence Awards 2023 News
APM is celebrating after Project – the official journal of APM – scooped the award for Best Association Newsletter or Magazine (circulation 6,000-25,000) at this year’s Association Excellence Awards, which took place at a prestigious awards ceremony in London on 3 November.
Successfully resetting major programmes News
In an ideal world, programmes would motor along, powered by a clear vision and plan, delivering what is required to the cost and time intended.
Toiling for project success in the Channel Islands News
Victor Hugo wrote his 1866 novel Toilers of the Sea on (and about) the small island of Guernsey.
What are the most important leadership lessons from this pioneering project? News
1 Understand your personality.
Agile versus agility News
In 45 years in project management, Adrian Dooley has seen many fads appear that later became integrated into the background of good practice.
Rising Star: How to make it in the highly competitive world of retail (and get spotted as a top talent by being curious, proactive and gutsy) News
Rose Young, Portfolio Delivery Manager at No7 Beauty Company, is APM’s Young Project Professional of the Year.
A project management ghost story of Christmas Blog
Waterfall was dead.
Is ‘failing at failing’ success? News
Eddie Obeng on why we love to win but why it’s so hard to do
Project: to open a martial arts club News
Amerjit Walia, Director of Projects and Programmes at AK Optimize, works with corporate clients to improve project delivery.
How to become the youngest Chartered Project Professional ever News
Bel French, project manager at Gleeds, was told she was throwing her career away by skipping university, but she has beaten all the records anyway.
A project management ghost story of Christmas
Waterfall was dead.
My project journey: From past through present to future
It’s a wet morning in 2023 and you’re comfortably seated in two chairs at once.
Evan Davis on measuring project success
In this 50th anniversary year of APM, BBC presenter Evan Davis was interviewed for APM’s Project for the outside view on all things project, not least how they have the power to transform the social, economic and cultural life of a country.
Why mentoring and volunteering are high on project professionals’ agenda this year
In an earlier article, I shared some of the best answers we received from Project journal readers in spring 2022 as part of our ‘Project Me’ series.
Five ways festivals are working to be more sustainable
In 2016, Shambala became the UK’s first annual greenfield music festival to go meat- and fish-free as part of a broader drive towards sustainability.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: why was it such a stellar project success?
Could the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao be built partly from the carcasses of decommissioned Soviet submarines? It’s an intriguing possibility that arose after I took a look back at one of the most successful construction projects of the last 50 years for Project journal.
Is it time to fundamentally reinvent project management?
The rapidly changing world that we have encountered since the pandemic demands new ways of thinking about project management.
The enterprise model – an innovative approach to project management in New Zealand
With a population just shy of five million, New Zealand may not be the first country that springs to mind for projects at scale needing innovation.
A patchy track record? Why legacy is in the spotlight again post-Tokyo Olympics
Hosting the Olympics is right up there on the list of global megaprojects in terms of scale, complexity, public attention and expense.
How to banish toxicity and create a healthy, productive PMO culture
When Dawn Mahan was a girl, growing up in the US, her father would come home from working on the railway, dirty and exhausted, and she would guide him through the house to the couch, so he could lie down.
APM wins at Association Excellence Awards 2023
APM is celebrating after Project – the official journal of APM – scooped the award for Best Association Newsletter or Magazine (circulation 6,000-25,000) at this year’s Association Excellence Awards, which took place at a prestigious awards ceremony in London on 3 November.
Successfully resetting major programmes
In an ideal world, programmes would motor along, powered by a clear vision and plan, delivering what is required to the cost and time intended.
Toiling for project success in the Channel Islands
Victor Hugo wrote his 1866 novel Toilers of the Sea on (and about) the small island of Guernsey.
What are the most important leadership lessons from this pioneering project?
1 Understand your personality.
Agile versus agility
In 45 years in project management, Adrian Dooley has seen many fads appear that later became integrated into the background of good practice.
Rising Star: How to make it in the highly competitive world of retail (and get spotted as a top talent by being curious, proactive and gutsy)
Rose Young, Portfolio Delivery Manager at No7 Beauty Company, is APM’s Young Project Professional of the Year.
Is ‘failing at failing’ success?
Eddie Obeng on why we love to win but why it’s so hard to do
Project: to open a martial arts club
Amerjit Walia, Director of Projects and Programmes at AK Optimize, works with corporate clients to improve project delivery.
How to become the youngest Chartered Project Professional ever
Bel French, project manager at Gleeds, was told she was throwing her career away by skipping university, but she has beaten all the records anyway.