Graduate project manager profile Blog
Our 2016 Young Project Manager of the Year, Midlands, is James Faflik who is a Graduate project manager at Gleeds.
Local corporate organisations join the Midlands branch Corporate Group for lunch News
Midlands Branch corporate member representatives joined a Branch Corporate Advisory Group (BCAG) meeting entitled Setting Up a PMO on 15th June 2016 at the offices of Rider Levett Bucknall in Birmingham.
PMO Summer School Parts 1 and 2 News
The APM PMO SIG recently held two webinars.
Why can't people estimate: estimation bias and mitigation, 23rd June 2016 News
Midland branch delegates listened to David Simms give a talk entitled "Why can't people estimate: Estimating bias and mitigation".
Project Management Simulation Event held at the University of Worcester News
Worcester Business School (WBS), University of Worcester in collaboration with the Association for Project Management (APM) Midlands Branch held the Project Management Simulation Training Exercise event entitled “New Hangar Simulation” aimed at Business School students who have attended their Project Management module as part of their Undergraduate Business Course.
Agile = Scrum = No Project Managers! Really? News
Engagingly presented by Darren Wilmhurst, Director & Head of Consulting at RADTAC, the evening took us through the ‘why' and the ‘rationale' for Agile, then the Scrum Framework and that project managers don’t exist in this framework.
Midlands branch committee members News
The following have been elected as committee members for the Midlands branch and will take up the posts as shown against their names:
Developing Compelling Business Cases a product and a process Webinar News
There’s an increasing requirement, across both the public and private sector, to ensure that investment decisions are based on sound reasoning and with clear spending objectives.
How to Make Your PMO Tool Implementation Successful and Deliver Real Business Value News
The APM Midlands Branch hosted a very interactive session on how to successfully implement your PMO tool, led by Rebecca Leadbitter and Steve Kirk from Sciforma.
How to take the 'pulse' of groups and the organisation during times of change News
The Midlands Branch hosted a thought provoking talk from Rod Willis on the 2nd February in Coventry.
Graduate project manager profile
Our 2016 Young Project Manager of the Year, Midlands, is James Faflik who is a Graduate project manager at Gleeds.
Project sponsorship: making projects work
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?
Local corporate organisations join the Midlands branch Corporate Group for lunch
Midlands Branch corporate member representatives joined a Branch Corporate Advisory Group (BCAG) meeting entitled Setting Up a PMO on 15th June 2016 at the offices of Rider Levett Bucknall in Birmingham.
PMO Summer School Parts 1 and 2
The APM PMO SIG recently held two webinars.
Why can't people estimate: estimation bias and mitigation, 23rd June 2016
Midland branch delegates listened to David Simms give a talk entitled "Why can't people estimate: Estimating bias and mitigation".
Project Management Simulation Event held at the University of Worcester
Worcester Business School (WBS), University of Worcester in collaboration with the Association for Project Management (APM) Midlands Branch held the Project Management Simulation Training Exercise event entitled “New Hangar Simulation” aimed at Business School students who have attended their Project Management module as part of their Undergraduate Business Course.
Agile = Scrum = No Project Managers! Really?
Engagingly presented by Darren Wilmhurst, Director & Head of Consulting at RADTAC, the evening took us through the ‘why' and the ‘rationale' for Agile, then the Scrum Framework and that project managers don’t exist in this framework.
Midlands branch committee members
The following have been elected as committee members for the Midlands branch and will take up the posts as shown against their names:
Developing Compelling Business Cases a product and a process Webinar
There’s an increasing requirement, across both the public and private sector, to ensure that investment decisions are based on sound reasoning and with clear spending objectives.
How to Make Your PMO Tool Implementation Successful and Deliver Real Business Value
The APM Midlands Branch hosted a very interactive session on how to successfully implement your PMO tool, led by Rebecca Leadbitter and Steve Kirk from Sciforma.
How to take the 'pulse' of groups and the organisation during times of change
The Midlands Branch hosted a thought provoking talk from Rod Willis on the 2nd February in Coventry.
Turning projects around from red to black
Phil Cresswell, Programme Director at Arcadis UK, delivered an interactive session on how to act when programmes show signs of going off-track to members of the Midlands Branch at the Hilton Garden Hotel in Birmingham, introduced by Hazel Herbert.