Charles Orton-Jones meets Alex Maidment, an ambitious project manager motivated by a desire to uplift the North who was shortlisted for the APM Emerging Project Professional of the Year Award 2025.
Clarity in project management doesn’t usually show up at the beginning.
At some point in many project management careers, a thought quietly creeps in during a Monday morning meeting, while updating a RAID log for the hundredth time, or somewhere between stakeholder escalations and back-to-back calls: “I think I need a new job.
Will the temptation of artificial intelligence (AI) make us lazy? Before we know it, might our mental muscles atrophy and our ability to think critically diminish until we’ve lost our human edge? It might be an extreme take on the revolution we are living through, but it’s a real concern as we travel further down our collaborative journey with AI.
A £6bn+ bill for cancelled government projects sounds like another public-sector failure.
Programme management has changed.
Infrastructure has a central role in enabling economic growth and improving connectivity.
Project environments are unpredictable; resilience doesn’t have to be.
The world continues to move at pace, and business conditions are more volatile.
It’s not what you say; it’s the way you say it.