APM Blogs

Based upon my own experience I’m pleased to see that the number of organisations adopting portfolio management, particularly in the public sector, is increasing.

Firstly, let me inform you that the APM board has approved a name change for our SIG and so, from now on, we will be known simply as the Assurance SIG.

I write this whilst on bit of high following the joint presentation with Jane Royden last evening of The Lens Collective guide at a Coventrychapter event.

The Olympic project faces many challenges but perhaps the greatest is the legacy it leaves.

A programme is a big project and a portfolio is a big programme? NOT! There is a fundamental discontinuity between the three, mainly in skills.

The APM Benefits Management SIG is looking to canvass views on whether we are at a decisive point in the relationship between benefits and value or simply debating semantics?In recent years, there has been increased senior management focus on the benefits or the value realised through investment in change.

Plumbers are professionals.

At one of the earliest APM Portfolio Management Steering Committee meetings we decided to take our own medicine and adopt project management best practice!We did this by spending some agenda time thinking before doing.

Finally, it appears the future of the 2012 Olympic Stadium has been resolved with West Ham United winning out over Tottenham Hotspur’s proposal to knock it down and replace it with a football stadium.

In the past, we have attempted to keep SIG members up to date on what we are doing through occasional newsletter emails, but with our growing popularity the SIG felt we needed to adopt a more open and flexible method.