In July, APM’s launched its third Golden Thread report, focusing on sectors where project management skills are increasingly being used to run projects more effectively.
There are many good project management books.
The one thing we know is consistent about project management is that it delivers a change, but as much as project managers may try, with good planning and execution, many projects don’t come to fruition until customers are happy.
It is well known that we and our project teams need tools to help us keep track of what’s been done, aid decisions and inform our stakeholders.
The Association for Project Management’s big conversation around the future of work, Projecting the Future, outlines a number of factors reshaping the way that project managers will be working in the coming years.
As the lead of the APM’s Portfolio Management Interest Group, and someone who was heavily involved in the SIG that pre-dated it, I’m thoroughly looking forward to what will be my 6th Conference through all the years.
In project management, thorough planning is often heralded as the cornerstone of success.
In project management, we often see words drift in and become part of our collective vocabulary, as if they’ve always belonged.
Any project manager will know that managing and motivating a team effectively can be hard work.
We seem to live in a faster and more demanding world, characterised by rising levels of uncertainty and ambiguity.