APM Blogs

Dr Karen Thompson and Dr Nigel Williams reflect on the 18 months since the launch of the RPM Manifesto and look ahead to next year As 2020 draws to a close, the time is right to look back at the progress of Responsible Project Management (RPM) and look forward with anticipation to 2021 as the International Year of Responsible Project Management: the year when the project profession will ‘come of age’.

Does the UK have the project management skills needed to deliver major projects successfully? It is a pressing question as we enter 2021 and look ahead to a raft of projects that are set to reshape the UK’s physical and digital infrastructure.

Project professionals will be at the heart of the transformation to deliver meaningful change and meet the UK’s net zero targets With the headlines dominated by coronavirus throughout 2020, you could be forgiven for thinking that decision makers had taken their eye off the climate change crisis.

I expect many project professionals have been spending more time at home recently.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out his second Budget at the start of March.

The concept of net zero has become familiar in discussions about the climate change crisis.

In the next five years, the world will see more projects than ever.

The past few months have accelerated tech adoption in project management.

We all know that effective communication is an important project success factor, but it’s also one of the hardest things to get right.

By early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic tipped the world of work on its head, project professionals were used to hearing about ‘the future of work’, ‘upskilling’ and more.