Whilst I write this I am still in the celebratory mode, rounding up for the year and preparing to celebrate Christmas with my family and reflecting on my volunteering experience this year.
In this PMO wisdom interview, we hear from Christine an accomplished, award-winning, and strategic project management leader with extensive experience spearheading enterprise-wide initiatives that improve talent, project delivery, and customer experience organisation-wide.
A new survey by Association for Project Management (APM) reveals the impact of recent economic events in the UK and the cost of living crisis on projects and the people who deliver them.
This was a joint The Nuclear Institute: Project Management SIG and APM’s three part Nuclear webinar series How can we learn and innovate in a highly regulated and process-driven industry such as Nuclear? The secret may be unlearning, a process for freeing yourself from past assumptions, habits and ‘rules’ to enable you to adapt and change your behaviour for the very different requirements of the future.
Eddie Obeng on why we love to win but why it’s so hard to do “Success is overrated”, we tell ourselves when we worry we might fail.
Is a project manager responsible for idiotic business-as-usual practices after they’ve moved on? Gremlins suggests you need to provide more than just operating instructions for those who follow you, writes Richard Young Most project managers are familiar with that nervous feeling when you hand over your carefully nurtured project to the business-as-usual (BAU) operators – and you pray they’re not knuckle‑headed enough to ignore your carefully crafted guidance.
Amerjit Walia, Director of Projects and Programmes at AK Optimize, works with corporate clients to improve project delivery.
Bel French, project manager at Gleeds, was told she was throwing her career away by skipping university, but she has beaten all the records anyway.
Dear Susanne, I always start a risk log at the beginning of a new project, but as the project progresses, we often get delayed by issues I had not foreseen.
Do I love what I do? Ewelina Kruk, Associate Director, Incendium Consulting There are many aspects to consider when planning your next career step, but for me the most important question I ask is: do I love what I do? The beauty of being a project professional is that there are opportunities to change focus and pivot.
