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There are many types of assurance in the market, offered by many providers, covering many facets of delivery.

What does a global engineering company looking to develop their project management methods, a global manufacturing business introducing project management for their new product development lifecycle, and a national retailer going through a major and complex business transformation programme all have in common, apart from the obvious project management?Many businesses give considerable thought, investment and effort towards the professionalism of their project management community, and to determining and developing project management processes which are operationally fit for purpose.

How we work and communicate has changed radically in recent years, with significant numbers across society, including within the project management profession, now using devices that mean we can be in contact and carrying out work and other activities, 24/7, instantly and unrelentingly.

A search on Google for portfolio manager provided me with 9.

A recent poll published by the Guardian asked people how much status particular groups of people have in society today.

Continuing on with my monthly description of the different workstreams within the Assurance SIG; the last (but not least) two workstreams are the Auditing of Projects and Interfaces workstreams.

A heady mix for the latest meeting of the APM Board.

Is it perhaps because the most recent and influential publication on portfolio management came out of the OGC stable, moving upstairs from PRINCE2 and MSP, that there seems to be a focus on process and support office functions?Having been responsible for the portfolio of several organisations, and advised on a few more, the most important factor to me is leadership, particularly at this ‘directing’ level.

Last week I was over in Dublin for three days for the PMI Global Congress EMEA; one presentation certainly took my eye “Establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) Using the Agile Approach” from three speakers based out of Saudi Arabia.

The current APM Body of Knowledge has more than 250 acronyms listed and if I’ve learnt anything from the profession; it’s that it has an almost endless capacity to invent more.