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Patrick Mayfield, experienced practitioner, author and coach in programme management and stakeholder engagement, presented to the Programme Management SIG on 29th May.

As project managers, how do we move beyond simply(!) managing our projects and instead lead them with vision and innovation? Faced with seemingly never ending deadlines for deliverables, reports and decisions that always seem to come around too quickly and take up all our time, are we focusing on the wrong things? These were just some of the themes explored at last week’s Women in Project Management SIG event “Project Management Leadership: Are we too busy with the urgent to focus on the important?”.

Image: Financial Times, FlickrThe multi-billion pound Crossrail 2 could be set to open in 2029 four years earlier than initially planned, according to an announcement by London Mayor Boris Johnson.

A report of the keynote address by Richard Bacon, MP, to the Programme Management SIG on 18 June 2014 by Jim Dale (Secretary of ProgM).

A report of the keynote address by Richard Bacon, MP, to the Programme Management SIG on 18 June 2014 by Jim Dale (Secretary of ProgM).

Assurance is defined in the APM Body of Knowledge 6th Edition as being the process of providing confidence to stakeholders that projects, programmes and portfolios will achieve their scope, time, cost and quality objectives, and realise their benefits.

The APM Hong Kong June event was held, as usual, at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.

The nominations for the Thames Valley Committee have now been closed and the below names are the nominees.

The SWWE branch were pleased to be able to invite Dale Sherman, Qinetiq’s Head of Profession for Cost Engineering, and chairman of the Society for Cost Analysis and Forecasting (SCAF), to talk about the challenges of cost estimating in today’s economic climate.

**Entry into the APM Project Management Awards 2014 is now closed.