APM Blogs

The UK space sector is taking off.

Michelle Littlemore (Northumbria University) and Karen Thompson (Responsible Project Management) know a thing or two about projects - that we’re still expected to deliver “profitable” results even when delivering in a sustainable way.

A rapidly changing world brings new health challenges and seeks, above all, the management of the health sector for its better alignment with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The future of project management is likely to demand even greater flexibility, agility and responsiveness.

The ECITB is celebrating the success of ten people from across the engineering construction industry who have just achieved Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status from the Association for Project Management (APM) while opening applications for next year’s cohort.

There is so much hype around AI right now, and it probably feels like information overload.

There has been much mention of artificial intelligence (AI) in project management circles, but few have defined it and what it can do for the profession.

The power of networking to elevate your career is a theme close to the heart of APM’s new President Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE DL (she gave some brilliant tips at the APM Fellows’ dinner in Coventry).

We are all familiar with the narrative ‘you must record lessons throughout a project lifecycle’, but the more I talk to professionals, the more I realise it’s often not done to the nth degree, and that it seems to be seen as a tick boxing exercising within the project closedown process rather than a meaningful, dynamic process that occurs throughout a project lifecycle.

Poor air quality is described by Public Health England as “the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK”, with long-term exposure to air pollution causing conditions including lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, reducing life expectancy.