APM Blogs

Often, the overriding focus of the leaders within major programmes is to ensure the objectives of the programme are achieved to time and within the available budget.

It's Volunteer's Week, so we caught up with student volunteer, James Lesingham, who is a Programme Management SIG committee member to find out what motivates him.

Back in my student days, Economics Lecturers described transport as a “derived demand.

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Claire Harrison, our #futurepmgoal winner, works as a project manager for project consultancy e2x, delivering ecommerce software projects.

As the chair of the APM Knowledge SIG, I get to see many project/programme managers who have issues around establishing the differences between data, information and knowledge.

Our 2016 Young Project Manager of the Year, Midlands, is James Faflik who is a Graduate project manager at Gleeds.

As a society and as a profession we now face a different set of challenges – whether it’s preparing for Brexit, reacting to the rapidly changing world order and its consequences, or the march of new technology and its implications, or indeed many other challenges of the modern era.

The APM Report ‘BREXIT – The Great British Project?’ is an excellent editorial with a terrific title but gives a misleading message for two reasons.

Many people think of an initiative in terms of “deliver the project” and then “realise the benefits”.