APM News

To celebrate National Careers Week, APM has launched its ‘Be a Better You’ campaign in order to raise awareness of the opportunities open to those seeking to build a career in the project profession.

The Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire branch welcomed Roger Garrini to talk about the Governance SIG publication on the Governance of Agile Project Work, followed by Anna Caine and Darren Curry from the Portfolio Office at NHS Business Services Authority, to talk through their experience in implementing Agile within the NHS.

‘Ken dumps Barbie because of links to deforestation’.

To successfully deliver its infrastructure book of work, UK plc must adopt a structured approach to the scoping and prioritisation of projects, explains Paul Taylor.

“Of course, contracts are only a rough guide,” said a Brazilian contractor with a wry smile during a payment discussion.

“Stakeholder engagement needs to be a higher priority” was one of the key messages from this webinar from the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG), which is part of the APM People SIG.

Software and game theory have merged with education to create a host of innovative training tools.

Increased stakeholder visibility, combined with more uncertain political and economic environments, means that project managers need to adopt different strategies to ensure a greater chance of project success.

Bechtel's Darren Coleman reflects on a career delivering some of the UK's biggest railway infrastructure projects.

What programme management challenges does the notoriously complex world of financial services present? Project gets the inside story from Karl Williams, financial services practice lead, and David Arrick, management consultant, at project and portfolio management consultant, at project and portfolio management consultancy Pcubed Large-scale transformation programmes have been a major priority for the banking sector since the financial crisis struck.