Why do some teams consistently deliver a high level of performance while other seemingly identical teams struggle? This was the subject of research led by Sandy Pentland at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Human Dynamics Laboratory in 2012.
A series of cavernous aircraft hangars on a former RAF base a few miles west of York might seem an unlikely location for a business at the cutting edge of project management.
Borrowing Silicon Valley’s Objectives and Key Results approach to strategy to manage your own portfolio will allow your projects to flex and adapt, says John McIntyre.
Tim Banfield considers the why and how of apologising well, while Dee Tamlin enjoys Matthew Syed’s treatise for cognitive diversity ✶✶✶✶✶ I first came across Matthew Syed when he closed the 2015 APM annual conference.
Space missions are the ultimate projects.
In APM’s glossary of project management terminology, a programme is defined as “a group of related projects” that are “undertaken to achieve beneficial change”.
Craig Scott started his career in project management aged just 16, when he began as a project management apprentice at BAE Systems.
I’m a Chartered Project Professional working in the offshore industry, managing geotechnical and geophysical projects for clients in the oil and gas and renewables industries.
Lots of children dream of working at a theme park.
A project needs to be governed from concept all the way through to delivery – or the point at which it is terminated.
