APM Blogs

For me, becoming a mentor was a natural transition from working on an individual on a project.

In today’s unprecedented times, almost every organisation undergoes continuous change, whether political, social, economic or environmental.

We have worked in project management for more than 30 years each, in the public and private sectors, education and as consultants.

Ulster University has opened its £350m city centre campus, housing over 15,000 staff and students – the largest city centre campus development in Europe.

Have we cracked gender equality in the project delivery profession? As someone who has worked my way up through the Civil Service ranks and managed projects of various shapes and sizes, my answer is that there is still some way to go.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the potential of large pre-trained language models, such as OpenAI's GPT, to transform the field of project management.

Procrastination can easily waste great ambition, skills and knowledge; it leads to regrets.

Writing about project professionals as agents of change for the forthcoming spring 2023 issue of Project journal was a great opportunity to get under the bonnet of three outstanding APM Award-winning projects from Rolls-Royce, the MOD and Openreach.

This blog is the second and final part of a series on outsourcing in project management.

What makes a great project manager? Perhaps the answer is a natural gift for getting everyone behind a new, slightly unloved initiative – or the ability to win over a room full of doubters with humour and a Gantt chart to die for.