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5 things we learned in 2023 from 2023-12-08T15:47:32
We look back at our favourite moments from the podcast in 2023.
It’s been another action-packed year in which we’ve welcomed guests from across the international project management commu...
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What artificial intelligence means for the future of project management from 2023-11-09T12:40:43
In this episode, Emma meets three project professionals with a deep interest in artificial intelligence (AI) to consider what impact this technology is having right now on projects, what it migh...
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The origins of agile project management from 2023-10-26T08:39:56
In this episode, Emma is joined once again by Professor Darren Dalcher of the University of Lancaster. Few people have studied project management as closely or for as long as Darren. In a career...
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How to manage menopause in the workplace from 2023-10-05T08:56:35
Emma meets three women to talk about menopause in the workplace. Two of them are project professionals – Rachel Jackson of Anglo American and Jo Roberts of the DfT – while the third, Aly Dilks o...
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Launching a career in the space sector, with the UK Space Agency’s Martina Blake from 2023-09-21T13:14:49
Professor Adam Boddison meets Martina Blake of the UK Space Agency. Martina heads up the agency’s Office for Project and Programme Management, which she set up in November 2021. She explains tha...
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Modernising defence through projects, with Army Portfolio Director Kris Baldy from 2023-09-08T11:02:39
Professor Adam Boddison (APM Chief Executive) in conversation with Kris Baldy, Army Portfolio Director at the UK Ministry of Defence.
Kris shares his journey through the ranks of the civi...
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State-of-the-art risk management in projects: What you need to know from 2023-08-31T13:44:49
Emma meets Peter Simon, a Director at Lucidus Consulting and a member of the APM Risk SIG Committee. He is co-author of a new APM report looking into opportunity management as part of the overal...
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The 15-minute conference: What you may have missed at APM’s Change Changes event from 2023-08-17T09:39:22
In June, APM held its annual conference in Birmingham under the heading of ‘Change Changes’. The event explored how the project profession must adapt to the changing nature of change itself in a...
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The female CEO leading the East West Rail project from 2023-08-10T09:32:35
Emma meets Beth West, CEO of East West Rail, a transport project that will open up a corridor from Oxford, through Milton Keynes and Bedford, to Cambridge and connect the UK’s two leading life s...
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How to tie in sustainability and data analytics to deliver successful projects from 2023-07-21T08:58:35
In this episode, Emma meets Jo Jolly, Deputy Director and Head of Project Futures at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, who recently spoke at APM's Change Changes conference. Everyth...
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Setting up a PMO from scratch in a media agency from 2023-06-09T09:12:25
Emma meets Dan Jennings, who recently established a project management office at the UK wing of global media agency Wavemaker. His team has worked on everything from Evian campaigns tied to the ...
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Project management and change activism with Magic Breakfast founder Carmel McConnell from 2023-05-26T13:31:42
Emma meets Carmel McConnell MBE – a change activist and keynote speaker at the upcoming APM Conference on 8 June in Birmingham. Carmel founded the charity Magic Breakfast; she is a tech entrepre...
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Introverts in project management speak out from 2023-05-12T09:15:10
Emma meets three project professionals (Alex Constantine, Clare Hornsby and Natalie Talbot) to discuss what it’s like to be an introvert in a project profession that seems to favour extroverts, ...
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Agile or agility? A valuable addition to the project toolkit from 2023-04-28T08:22:26
Emma meets Adrian Dooley, who has 45 years’ experience in project management. Adrian started out his career as a construction project manager, later becoming involved in developing software appl...
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‘The best project job in the UK’: Nick Smallwood on running the Infrastructure and Projects Authority from 2023-04-14T08:37:52
Professor Adam Boddison (APM Chief Executive) meets Nick Smallwood, CEO of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA). The IPA oversees the UK’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pip...
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An Icelandic professor on projects and a can-do mindset from 2023-03-31T08:39:42
Emma meets Haukur Ingi Jónasson, Professor of Project Management at the University of Reykjavik, where he runs its Master’s in Project Management (MPM) course. The MPM is helping create the proj...
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The hidden side of projects: Why they fail and what you can do about it from 2023-03-17T12:24:55
Emma meets Vip Vyas, co-author of Gorilla in the Cockpit: Breaking the hidden patterns of project failure and the system for success. Vip is founder of a company that specialises in bre...
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How big things get done, with Bent Flyvbjerg from 2023-03-03T09:40:04
Emma welcomes back Bent Flyvbjerg to talk about his new book, How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to science exploration Listen
Openreach’s PMO: Smashing perceptions and winning awards from 2023-02-17T09:59:40
This special episode is guest hosted by Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton, chair of APM’s PMO Specific Interest Group, and Director of Consulting Services at Wellingtone.
She’s in conversation wi...
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3 project trends for 2023 with Eddie Obeng from 2023-02-06T10:57:28
‘A sense maker in a daft world’ is how today’s guest, Eddie Obeng, describes himself. Eddie is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, an esteemed columnist for Project journal ...
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How to lead with empathy from 2023-01-11T14:01:41
Emma meets Belinda Parmar, founder and CEO of The Empathy Business, who was also the keynote speaker at APM’s Women in Project Management Conference in September. Belinda uses the science of emp...
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5 project management lessons we learned in 2022 from 2022-12-28T08:00:42
In 2022, our podcast guests have shared their advice and experiences on everything from putting telescopes into space to discovering sunken ships at the bottom of the Antarctic Sea. As the year ...
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Senior leader interview: Craig Hatch, Tetra Tech UK from 2022-12-21T08:00:02
In this episode, APM Chief Executive Professor Adam Boddison meets Craig Hatch, President at Tetra Tech UK. Tetra Tech is a global technology, environmental and management consultancy, with over...
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Legacy and impact: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games from 2022-12-07T10:36
In this episode, Emma meets Annie Hairsine, the project management brains behind the fabulously successful Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this summer. The Games were filled with colour and ene...
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Women in Project Management: How to make it to the top from 2022-11-23T09:21:21
In the second of our follow-up podcasts from the APM Women in Project Management Conference, Emma invites three senior leaders from the world of projects who contributed to WIPM. They share thei...
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Women in Project Management: Career tips from three female high-flyers from 2022-11-09T09:38:09
For this podcast, Emma invited three high-flyers from the world of projects who also contributed to APM’s Women in Project Management Conference this year, which was a terrific success and a rea...
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Bright young things: three future leaders on what they want from the profession from 2022-10-27T08:39:59
In this episode, Emma meets three of the profession’s bright young things – Stacey Bishop (SSE Renewables), Ashlyn O’Riordan (Turner & Townsend) and James Patraiko (Corre Energy). They share...
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How to put sustainability at the heart of your work from 2022-10-10T09:21:42
In this episode, Emma meets Kristina Bull, a Partner at QSA Partners, a B Corp consultancy with a mission to help organisations to implement circular economy business models. A project professio...
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Social mobility and projects with the Rt Hon Justine Greening from 2022-09-26T07:00:06
This episode sees Professor Adam Boddison, APM Chief Executive, in conversation with the Right Honourable Justine Greening. Justine served as an MP from 2005 to 2019. During her time in politics...
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Assurance management: what it is and how to do it well from 2022-09-14T11:01:56
In this episode, Emma meets Sarah Coleman and Andrew Schuster to talk assurance management. Sarah is a Chartered Project Professional and Fellow of APM and PhD researcher, and Andrew is the Nati...
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The evolution of the project profession within government, with HMRC’s Joanna Rowland from 2022-08-31T09:32:07
This episode sees Adam Boddison, APM chief executive, in conversation with Joanna Rowland, Director General for Transformation at HMRC. The pair discuss the evolution of the project profession w...
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Announcement: APM’s Women in Project Management Conference 2022 from 2022-08-18T16:12:06
WiPM Conference 2022: As hybrid working merges our home and work lives, and project deadlines remain unrelenting, how do we improve our well-being? To find out, join us at APM's Women in Project...
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Lessons learned from Crossrail with ex-CEO Mark Wild from 2022-08-10T13:17:03
In this episode, Andrew Saunders, business journalist and regular contributor to Project journal, sits down with Mark Wild, ex-CEO of Crossrail.
Mark took over as CEO of Crossrai...
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Endurance22: Lessons from the project to discover Ernest Shackleton's lost ship from 2022-07-13T10:03:16
Project journal Editor Emma De Vita meets Nico Vincent, Subsea Project Manager for the Endurance22 expedition, which on 5 March found the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackle...
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Mind the gap: The human side of project management from 2022-06-28T11:38:40
The new world requires a different mindset and skillset to navigate the pitfalls of change delivery. In this podcast, Jo Stanford (Health Education England) and Sarbjit Hoskinson (ThermoFisher S...
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Legal project management: a new hot area of growth from 2022-06-07T12:57:30
In this episode Emma De Vita, editor of Project, APM’s quarterly journal speaks to to Dee Tamlin, currently head of legal project management at Pinsent Masons but who will, come mid-July be dire...
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Rocket Man: Bloodhound's Richard Noble on Taking Risk from 2022-05-22T13:49:07
In this episode Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Richard Noble, the leader of some truly awe-inspiring British extreme speed projects on land, at sea and in the air. These included brin...
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The BBC’s Evan Davis on the importance of projects from 2022-04-26T08:27:17
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Evan Davis, presenter of BBC 4’s daily news programme PM, and former main presenter of Newsnight and the
Mexico's first APM award winner on Latin American megaprojects from 2022-04-12T10:16:02
In this episode, Emma De Vita, editor of Project, meets Marcos Fuentes, recipient of APM’s 2022 Festival of Education and Research award for Doctorate of the Year.
The focus of h...
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HS2 CEO Mark Thurston: managing an era-defining megaproject from 2022-03-29T09:50:06
Adam Boddison, APM chief executive, meets Mark Thurston, CEO of Europe’s largest infrastructure project, HS2. The pair discuss the evolution of the project profession, areas for growth and the p...
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James Webb Space Telescope: Top tips from NASA’s outstanding project leader from 2022-03-11T12:25:14
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets NASA’s Bill Ochs, project manager for the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space science telescope ever developed, whic...
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Alexandra Palace: Project tips from the world of festivals and events from 2022-02-28T11:12:10
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Simon Fell, director of events, festivals and leisure at London’s Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally as you might know it). He ha...
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Why mentoring matters from 2022-02-01T15:50:58
In this episode, Emma De Vita asks what mentoring means, what benefits it brings for people and organisations and how to do it well.
Our guest panellists:
- Vicki Griffiths, s... Listen
Making sense of success and failure with Darren Dalcher from 2022-01-26T12:10:39
In 2022, APM is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so throughout the year we’ll be sitting down with some of the movers and shakers who have shaped the project profession across the last few deca...
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6 project management lessons we learned in 2021 from 2021-12-27T08:00
It’s fair to say the past year has been another challenging one for project professionals, who have continued to navigate the complexities of the Covid pandemic, with schedules and budgets liabl...
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Inclusive design for project professionals (From the Frontline) from 2021-12-16T09:29:34
In our From the Frontline season, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is meeting project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects and academics whose research is at the fo...
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From the Frontline: Managing a cutting-edge renewables project from 2021-11-25T15:46:34
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita speaks to Tim Rose, programme manager at Energy Superhub Oxford, a four-year, £40m demonstrator project to explore potential innovat...
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Dynamic conditions for project success from 2021-11-11T09:00
In this episode, hosted by Mike Hine, online editor for Project journal, we take a look at the topic of dynamic conditions for project success.
Project professionals and organisa...
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From the Frontline: How to improve project performance from 2021-10-29T11:22:48
In ‘From the Frontline’, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront of pr...
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From the Frontline: Fast and furious at net-zero Formula E from 2021-10-07T16:02:34
In ‘From the Frontline’, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront of pr...
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From the Frontline: How to thrive in your career as a woman from 2021-09-20T08:22:07
In this special episode to tie in with APM’s annual Think Differently conference, Emma De Vita, the editor of Project journal, speaks to three ambitious female project professionals to ...
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How to be a great communicator from 2021-09-06T08:00
In this episode, hosted by Mike Hine, online editor for APM’s Project journal, we’re looking at communication for project professionals.
Communication is a vital condition for pr...
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Contracts and collaboration in a post-COVID world from 2021-08-25T08:11:14
Contracts create legally binding obligations between the parties involved in a project. They describe the nature of those obligations and the actions that can be taken if they are not met. As su...
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From the Frontline: How to make better project decisions from 2021-08-10T08:23
In ‘From the Frontline’, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront of pr...
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From the Frontline: Lessons from the pandemic for better programme management from 2021-07-26T09:00:46
In ‘From the Frontline’, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is meeting project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront ...
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From the Frontline: Life on Mars? Project managing NASA’s Perseverance mission from 2021-07-12T13:50:32
In our From the Frontline season, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is meeting professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront...
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New approaches to lessons learned – capturing the right lessons in the right way from 2021-06-25T13:43:29
In this episode, hosted by Project journal editor Emma De Vita, we explore why getting lessons learned right is incredibly important to project success. We also look at the main challen...
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The evolving definition of project ‘success’ from 2021-06-08T15:21:42
In this episode, hosted by Project journal online editor Mike Hine, our topic is project success, and how the definition of success is evolving to fit the challenges of the 2020s and be...
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Announcement: Power of Projects 2021 from 2021-06-03T09:42:54
APM’s Power of Projects conference is a virtual event, running 7–11 June, with a focus on redefining project ‘success’ for a post-pandemic world. Across the week, you’ll have access to practical...
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From the Frontline: Leading the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce from 2021-05-26T08:26:14
In our From the Frontline season, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is meeting professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects, and academics whose research is at the forefront...
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Why sustainability should be on every project professional’s agenda from 2021-05-13T09:52:33
As governments worldwide set targets on reaching net-zero carbon, project professionals are being tasked with rethinking working practices to cut emissions. Everything from planning to procureme...
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Your salary and future prospects revealed from 2021-04-01T08:21:38
In this episode, hosted by Project journal’s online editor Mike Hine, we discuss salaries and market trends within the project profession. It’s been an enormously challenging 12 months for every se...
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Project Innovators: Bent Flyvbjerg on how to make your project a success from 2021-03-24T12:04:56
In this final episode of the Project Innovators season, Project journal editor Emma De Vita speaks to Bent Flyvbjerg, the first BT professor and inaugural chair of major programme management at the...
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Project Innovators: How to bring strategy and projects closer together from 2021-03-10T15:54:05
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, who is on a mission to champion project management as a central issue for every CEO. He is the author of Lead Suc...
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How to make better use of project data from 2021-02-24T09:34:14
As with many new digital technologies, the terminology surrounding project data analytics can be confusing or off-putting to busy project professionals. However, as we discover in this episode, the...
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Project Innovators: Award-winning transformation with an honest culture from 2021-02-10T10:23:58
In this episode, host Emma De Vita meets Susan Ferry, a project manager for change at Allianz, who led what she calls a ‘big bang transformation’ project that revolutionised ways of working for the...
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Project Innovators: How to deliver under pressure (and win an award at the same time) from 2021-01-25T11:16:15
From Deepwater to drones – in this episode Project editor Emma De Vita meets Benjamin Hooper, programme and project manager at Heathrow Airport, whose project won APM’s 2020 Overall Project of the ...
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Project Innovators: How to professionalise through collaboration from 2021-01-08T10:03:16
In the Project Innovators season of podcasts, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is talking to project professionals who are leading projects in an innovative way at a time when many of us are hop...
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Project Innovators – Jenny McLaughlin, Heathrow from 2020-12-22T15:01:33
Resetting projects in a better way for a post-COVID world means capitalising on the best minds. Cognitive diversity, as explained by Matthew Syed in his book Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Think...
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Lessons from lockdown – the best of 'Crisis Talks' from 2020-12-04T14:56:37
In this episode, we look back on 2020 and reflect on some key project management lessons from a turbulent 9 months. Soon after the first UK lockdown in March, we founded this podcast to share the s...
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How to be a great project leader from 2020-11-06T16:50:41
In this episode, our topic is how to be a great project leader. We pin down exactly what it means to lead a project and how this role is evolving to reflect the changing nature of projects and obvi...
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Project Innovators – Matthew Moran, The Open University from 2020-10-16T08:00
In the ‘Project Innovators’ season of podcasts, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is speaking to project professionals who are leading projects in an innovative way at a time when many of us are ...
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Project Innovators – Caroline Raynor, Costain from 2020-10-02T15:04:08
In the ‘Project Innovators’ season of podcasts, Project journal editor Emma De Vita will be speaking to project professionals who are leading projects in an innovative way at a time when many of us...
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VUCA, hybrid and adaptability: reflections on BoK7 from 2020-09-08T14:12:38
In this episode, our topic is the APM Body of Knowledge. The seventh edition of this core text for the profession was published in 2019. One year on, the book’s co-editors – Dr Ruth Murray-Webster ...
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The Golden Thread: recognising the contribution of project management from 2020-08-25T15:14:34
This episode explores the findings from The Golden Thread, a research series by APM and PwC. The first Golden Thread paper was commissioned to throw light on a profession that has been hidden and u...
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Crisis Talks – Joanna Rowland, HMRC from 2020-08-10T15:51:06
In the Crisis Talks season of podcasts, Project journal editor Emma De Vita asks project professionals to share their stories of managing, adapting and pivoting their projects through lockdown and ...
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Crisis Talks – Andrew Higson, Balvac from 2020-07-27T09:56:13
In the Crisis Talks season of podcasts, Project journal editor Emma De Vita asks project professionals to share their stories of managing, adapting and pivoting their projects through lockdown and ...
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Crisis Talks – Paul Hilton, Mott MacDonald from 2020-07-13T09:25:26
Our Crisis Talks series explores how project managers are adapting and pivoting to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Emma De Vita (editor of APM’s Project journal) spea...
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Crisis Talks – Hannah Gledhill, Hotel Chocolat from 2020-06-29T13:24:15
Our Crisis Talks series explores how project managers are adapting and pivoting to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Emma De Vita (editor of APM’s Project journal) spea...
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Crisis Talks – Sonia Sharma, Channel 4 from 2020-06-15T09:20:50
Our Crisis Talks series explores how project managers are adapting and pivoting to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Emma De Vita (editor of APM’s Project journal) spea...
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Risk, resilience and outliers: How COVID-19 changed project management from 2020-06-08T16:19:15
What is the future of project management as the world moves into the next stage of the COVID-19 crisis? And what are the risk factors and opportunities going forward, both for individuals and the p...
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Crisis Talks - Lizzie Meadows, Quadram Institute Bioscience from 2020-04-22T12:44:22
In episode one of our first season, Crisis Talks, Emma De Vita (editor of APM’s Project journal) speaks to Lizzie Meadows, a project manager at Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), whose bioreposito...
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