APM Blogs

Martin Samphire sets out five areas that organisations should focus on to achieve better governanceOK, so you are involved in a major project.

To mark World Environment Day today, Richard Samworth says simple nudges or changes to the way we work can transform sustainability in projects.

As the chartered body for our profession, Association for Project Management (APM) is responsible for setting standards and leading by example on behalf of the entire project community.

Firstly a brief overview of what agile project management is and how it differs from more traditional project management approaches.

How you conduct yourself as a professional and a person is vital during the last phases of a project, as it defines your brand as a professional project manager.

As the world grapples with lockdown measures, Richard Young asks project professionals how their projects have been affected – and what their path back to ‘normality’ might beIt’s not just employees who’ve been put on furlough.

Escalation should never be a threat or a punishment; escalation should be for the benefit of the organisation, says David Hamilton Have you ever looked at a project or a workstream that is not going anywhere and thought to yourself, ‘why hasn’t this been escalated?’ We all know that, sometimes, projects need to be escalated to a senior level to get decisions made or things unblocked.

‘Hyper agile’, ‘new agile’, ‘future agile’, ‘agile & flexible’ join the ‘agile’ buzzword culture throughout our organisations and daily life.

Project managers Abdul Wahab Ghumra and Aqeel Bashir say there are many things that project professionals of all faiths can learn from Ramadan, such as communication and sharing.

 Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of Cornwall’s Eden Project, explains how a galvanising message can hold a team together through the toughest of projects.