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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.
Can project managers orchestrate AI? Drawing parallels with LLM development
AI • artificial intelligence
Language, once the sole domain of human thought, now flows from silicon minds. But these minds need direction - a project manager’s vision. This article explores how to conduct this symphony of code and creation.
Increase project success and reduce risk by identifying the right stakeholders
Stakeholder management • Stakeholder engagement
Failure to identify the right stakeholder at the right stage of your project and you run the risk of your project failing.
From pointe shoes to project plans - life lessons from the perspective of middle age
Women in project management
I invite you to stop for a moment and take a breather. Reflect on how you got to where you are. Was it all meticulously planned or were there some events over which you had little or no control? Did you have to adapt and re-plan?
Conflict isn’t a setback, it’s a leadership opportunity
Team management
Every project professional has a story. The tense meeting, the stakeholder stand-off, the he said, she said moment that derails a week of progress. Conflict is part and parcel of project work, especially in high pressure environments where deadlines are tight, budgets are squeezed, and people care deeply about the outcomes.
Liar, liar: are untruths becoming more common in the workplace?
Communication • Teamwork
We’ve all told white lies or ‘stretched the truth’ to suit our needs, but are we lying more now than we used to? You might think so – or perhaps, with the rise of fake news, we have simply become more aware of the lies we are.
How to manage your first global project team
Global project teams
With a significant increase in global teams, it is becoming increasingly important for ambitious project professionals to think about how they would approach managing and leading projects across different countries.
Free digital article from Project Journal
Going full blast
Projects Emma De Vita reports on Nammo Space, a pioneering UK company that’s pushing technological frontiers and using a more dynamic approach to projects to help keep it ahead in the space race.
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.