APM Blogs

APM’s revised Competence Framework measures the competency of project teams – a critical factor in project success.

It's amazing how much can be achieved by one simple question - why?One word is more powerful, more annoying and more challenging than any other.

Are we alone amongst Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) in thinking that our subject is the most widely misunderstood in project management? Probably not.

It has been said that the personality traits of a good senior project manager are similar to those of an entrepreneur.

Getting communication right in a crisis matters.

Do today’s problems come from yesterday’s perfectly executed solutions? If so, how should we be managing benefits?I’ve been asked to deliver a keynote talk at a benefits management conference and it’s given me an ethical dilemma.

APM’s Conditions for Project Success report provides some useful insights into the reasons why people consider specific project success factors are important.

There’s always a risk when you’re working on projects that you invest the detail of the process with a spurious, level of authority.

We are frequently asked this question, often with the added comment “I organised my wedding brilliantly…I’d be a great project manager”, or “I’m really organised so I must be a good project manager”Organising yourself or an event certainly sounds like good foundations.

Who could possibly take issue with a word such as ‘collaborate’, which according to my on-line dictionary, denotes ‘the action of working with someone to produce something’? There now appears to be an inextricable drive to collaborate across all organisational sectors, in what has been coined ‘the age of alliances’.