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Infographic: 10 Things You Should Know About APMP

May 6, 2013
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40 years of project management (video)

December 14, 2012

Here’s a take on 2012 which looks back at the last 40 years. In this video, which is mainly pictures so while it is better with speakers you can watch it without, you’ll see the history of project management illustrated by some of the major projects that have happened since then.

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News round-up for November

November 26, 2012

It’s the end of another month. Read on for a round-up of the most interesting stories in the project management world this month, including a video of a project management flash mob. Strengthening Shell’s project management capability APM created a new pan-sector standard last March to raise the bar of project professionalism to a whole [...]

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Gamification in project management

October 24, 2012

Last year, it was all about social media. This year’s hot new trend is gamification. What’s that, I hear you ask? It’s such a new word that my spellchecker flags it up as an error. Gamification has been around for a while. It’s the art of making work seem less like, well, work. It’s about [...]

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Lessons Learned from building the Olympic Park (part 2)

August 12, 2012

Today is the closing ceremony for the Olympics. London will be reorganising itself for a couple of week, prior to the kick off of the Paralympics on 29 August. In this video from APM, Caroline Blackman from the Olympic delivery partner, CLM, talks about the lessons learned from working in a partnership on a large [...]

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Lessons Learned from building the Olympic Park

July 27, 2012

The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics is today. It’s taken London a long time to reach this point, and many hours of project and programme management have gone into getting this far. In this video from APM, Dennis Hone from the Olympic Delivery Authority talks about the project management lessons learned from building [...]

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Delivering the Olympic Legacy through the construction programme

June 1, 2012

  Here’s the transcript for this video, as sometimes the audio is hard to hear. Elizabeth: I’ve come to the Charing Cross hotel in the middle of London. It’s just raining and I’m here for an Association for Project Management Learning Legacy event about the Olympics. What we’ll be looking at this evening – I [...]

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PM News Round-up for May

May 23, 2012

It might have been a soggy month, but there is still a lot happening in the project management world. Here’s a round up of the news. Social Media for Project Managers now in Kindle Format! Amazon’s Kindle is a great way to access books quickly (I have just downloaded The Hunger Games with one click) [...]

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PM News Round-up for April

April 25, 2012

Now the beginning of the year slump is out the way and it’s properly Spring, the project management world is buzzing with news. Here’s a summary of what I have found interesting this month. APM conference speakers focus on the Olympics APM have announced another senior speaker in the Olympic learning legacy stream at the [...]

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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

February 29, 2012

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelising about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. At the [...]

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