APM Blogs

It’s late, you’ve just won a 10-year war against the Greeks, and all you want is to get this giant wooden horse off the beach and into Troy – you want to start the party.

What responsibilities will you have as a project manager? What does the role actually involve? We talked to four younger project managers about their early career lessons – and how they were developing as project leaders.

Whether you have a formal project management process in place or not in an organisation, but projects are still happening all around.

The classical way of defining success criteria limit us sometimes to the traditional iron triangle of quality, cost and delivery.

Have you ever had problems with a stakeholder? Do you find that sometimes stakeholders just won’t engage, but actively resist? Have you ever been a ‘not so perfect’ stakeholder yourself? These days, everyone knows that if your programme or project is to succeed you must connect with your stakeholders.

What is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the BRI in 2013.

How is project management perceived and applied in different industries and professions? That’s been the focus of a series of APM discussion groups in recent months.

Contrary to popular belief benefits management is more about organisations and their people than it is the projects invested in to enable the achievement of their business goals.

Out-there lessons for project managers from NASA Let’s start with an all-time classic.

Many project delivery professionals will have been involved with project, programme, portfolio maturity assessments.