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King’s Honours for those in the project profession
Project profession • King's honours • OBE
The project profession was well represented in the King’s recent Birthday Honours List. IPA Chief Executive Nick Smallwood and APM Fellow Gareth Stapleton were among those featured.
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Cyber security projects: Adapting to a changing threat landscape
Cyber security • Project delivery • Safety
As cyber threats become more sophisticated and the regulatory landscape more demanding, organisations are under pressure to embed security into every aspect of their operations. For project professionals, this shift presents both a challenge and an opportunity.
Mind the gap: Integrating mental health and inclusion in project management
Mental health • Mental wellbeing
Mental health and inclusion are no longer peripheral to project management — they’re central to how we lead, deliver and collaborate.
Five ways to make your project leadership fit for tomorrow
Leadership • Leadership styles
Dealing with the unforeseen is a key part of a project manager’s job. But something significant has shifted in recent years. With tech innovation just one of many factors driving change, uncertainty and complexity in projects, project management is increasingly about executing transformative projects in rapidly shifting sands.
What will it take for the C-suite to embrace project management?
Project management
Do senior leaders in most organisations today really understand enough about what project management is and, more importantly, the strategic value that project professionals can bring? And, if not, will the profession ever execute a similar trajectory to that taken by its peers in HR and marketing, achieving representation on the executive board?
Five ways to be more innovative in your projects
Megaprojects
A fast-moving world brings greater uncertainty and risk, which demands fresh thinking from project professionals. As Andrew Davies, professor of innovation management at the University of Sussex Business School, told us back in 2020 when discussing innovation in megaprojects: “Leaders need to be able to adapt to change and recognise that there is no one-size-fits-all approach.”
How to manage multiple projects (and prioritise like a pro)
Project management
How do you juggle competing priorities, manage expectations and still leave the office on time? Elizabeth Harrin, Director of Rebel’s Guide to Project Management, gives practical advice on how to do this in the latest edition of her book Managing Multiple Projects.
The 7-year itch
Chartered Project Professional • ChPP
After nearly seven years in project management, I realised I’d hit that moment. Not burnout. Not boredom. Just a niggling sense that I needed something to show for my career so far, something formal that recognises not only what I’ve delivered, but where I’m heading. Enter: the Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) standard.
Beyond the iron triangle: why benefits are the golden thread of project success
Benefits management
Walk into almost any large organisation and you’ll see them: projects which were delivered to time, quality and budget that end up gathering dust. You’ll see programmes whose hard-won changes are unpicked a year later. And portfolios struggling to show how they’re actually moving the organisation towards its strategic goals.
How project management can play a strategic role in the creative sector
Project management
Robin Barton is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the University of the Arts London (UAL), whose prestigious colleges include Central Saint Martins, Camberwell College of Arts and London College of Fashion. Below, Barton gives his insider’s view on working in a sector not traditionally associated with the project profession – and his experience of being closely involved with the implementation of the university’s strategic priorities.
Free digital article from Project Journal
Notre-Dame rises from the ashes
The story of the rebuilding of the Parisian landmark after it was ravaged by fire in 2019 provides lessons in collaboration, determination and using 21st-century tech to keep ancient heritage alive/
By Emma De Vita
Project – the official journal of the Association for Project Management (APM) – is circulated quarterly for members only. Project covers the latest news, opinions and insights for those in the project community.