APM Blogs

Few sectors have taken as much of a battering as retail in the past 12 months.

It’s been almost 12 months since project meetings became primarily virtual.

Actions speak louder than words: the importance of positive role models An assessment of an organisation’s risk maturity will often consider process, data quality, tools and training, but whilst risk behaviour is harder to measure, it’s this that really determines whether risk is being actively managed.

Servant leadership is a term we use when a project manager or leader puts the needs of those they are leading before their own.

Many of us will have started the new year with a commitment to increase our exercise and eat more healthily.

Assertiveness is for many project managers the defining characteristic of leadership; to be non-assertive can come off as weakness and indecisiveness.

Many of you will probably have heard the following riddle: A father and his son are involved in a horrific car crash and the man died at the scene.

To mark LGBT+ (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender) history month that takes place in February each year, a group of colleagues at Arup, London, decided to get together and put forward ideas, stories and debates to share with the team, throughout the month.

Projects can often be vague or offer up benefits which cannot be achieved.

Almost all projects involve a supply chain, and the cultural, commercial and geographic gaps between members of the supply chain can lead to catastrophic quality issues, both intentional and unintentional.