APM’s Project Management Challenge: Empowering future Project Managers

The challenge aims to nurture the next generation of project management professionals by giving entrants the opportunity to experience a full project lifecycle from conception to delivery, with the support of an experienced mentor. It encourages corporate apprentices, graduates with fewer than three years’ experience, and higher education students to develop their project management skills by delivering a project using APM’s theoretical frameworks and project competencies to guide their approach.

Last year’s Finals night included presentation from five finalist teams, who presented their projects to a room of peers and judges. Team PM Dream Team from Mott Macdonald were crowned the winning team on the night. Inspired by an internal exercise that highlighted the issue of burnout within our organisation, they decided to focus on providing support materials and raising awareness about mental and physical resilience within Mott MacDonald. Collaborating with their unit’s Wellbeing team, they organized a hybrid workshop focused on developing mental and physical resilience featuring expert speakers. Additionally, they created a Resilience Handbook, available on Mott MacDonald’s intranet, offering tips to enhance and maintain mental resilience. The team commented that participating in the challenge allowed them to further develop their project management skills around several key areas including change control, risk management, and benefits realisation.

PM Dream Team has been chosen as one of the finalists for our first ever National Project Management Challenge award, which feature as a category at the APM Project Management Awards, taking place on 18 November at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London.

Could you be part of this year’s winning team?

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