Project meets Sarah Marland of the Atomic Weapons Establishment to find out her views on leadership and project management in the defence industry Sarah Marland is head of programme management at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), one of the most highly regulated sites in the UK.
For experienced practitioners Philip Bradbury and Tayyab Jamil, the opportunity to join the writing team working on the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition was the perfect way to share their experiences of working on projects and give back to the profession Philip Bradbury Project: What’s your background? PB: I work for Transport for London (TfL).
Project meets a mentor-mentee pair from multinational property group Lendlease to find out what benefits they feel mentoring brings Peter Chana, chair of APM’s London branch, is portfolio director and head of heritage, arts and education at multinational construction, property and infrastructure company Lendlease.
Project meets Paul Morrell, chair at this year’s APM Awards, to get his view on what makes a successful project Paul Morrell OBE, former chief government construction advisor, is a chartered quantity surveyor and former senior partner at Davis Langdon.
What Star Wars: The Force Awakens can tell us about lessons learned.
It is predicted that 5G will enable quick, powerful digital tools to improve projects, and many innovators are busy preparing for the launch of the network in 2020 This autumn sees Vodafone begin testing its 5G communications services in seven cities across the UK.
Gerard Newman, Daniel Birch and Atif Ansar examine how major programmes could look to improve their success rates Major programmes delivered to cost, time and benefit targets are typically defined as successful.
As project professionals begin to gain Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status and the discipline moves up to the next level, APM has been looking at the role female leaders play in delivering major projects.
In the 1990s, the three main contributors to the European Space Agency (ESA) – Germany, France and Italy – decided that Europe needed its own global navigation satellite system, and the idea for Galileo was born.
APM Thames Valley branch Project Management Challenge Competition 2018/19 - now in progressThe annual successful TVB PM Challenge for 2018/19 has now launched taking it into its 8th successful year as a competition for developing project management professionals.
