APM News

Dr Peter Parkes provides a guide to agile project management, and addresses some common misconceptions Many people think of agile as a toolset.

Effective collaboration with global teams relies on more than just the latest technological innovations, writes Mike Clayton At the start of the year, I spent many happy hours reading my Christmas present, the magnificent book By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe.

Weather is notoriously hard to predict, but project managers now have a range of cutting-edge services at their disposal, writes Richard Young.

Project managers must seize the opportunity to lead the way in the development of increasingly crucial surge strategies, writes Dr Mike Waters The world’s major and most challenging incidents – and often those that cause the most misery – are surge events: earthquakes, storm surges, floods, pandemics, sudden mass migrations, mass casualty incidents, and sudden conflagrations like the terrible Grenfell Tower fire.

Remote teams often bring added complexity.

What do tomorrow's engineers look like? Well, they could very well look like our Autumn Project journal Rising Star, Liz Rawlinson, who has an MEng in civil engineering, University of Bristol and is a Chartered member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

With several major national projects in the pipeline, now is a crucial time for UK infrastructure.

Dr Rebecca Casey, Lecturer in Newcastle University Business School, is to work with APM and lead on a project to inform and develop the adoption of benefit realisation management among the project management community.

We are pleased to announce the publication of details of our chartered standard; the professional benchmark that demonstrates a defined level of technical knowledge, professional practice and ethical behaviour required to become a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP).

Featuring talks from RSM Director, Nigel Bennett and Head of Professional Standards at APM, Gill Hancock, this joint Wessex and Thames Valley APM branch event in September began with the 2017 update of PRINCE2 - a structured project management method and certification programme for practitioners in the methodology.