Discover how the APM Book supports smarter project planning by offering proven frameworks, best practices, and practical guidance for effective project and programme management.

For many businesses and organizations, project management has received a lot of renewed focus in recent years. One reason for this is that analytics and data-driven approaches have become a high ...

Colleges and universities are navigating technological change, shifting demographics, evolving workforce demands and fluctuating economic conditions. As a university president, I’ve seen how ...

The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project as "a temporary group activity designed to create a unique product, service, or result." A project has distinctive elements that distinguish it ...

The project plan provides a focused roadmap for exactly how to implement and complete a business project. It includes all the necessary information for how the organization will handle the project, ...

Have you had at least one project failure in the past year? So have 70% of other businesses. So, what gives? Getting a group of people together to work towards a common goal doesn’t automatically ...

From a project manager’s perspective, a strong plan is vital to maintain communication with stakeholders across all levels of an organization. While communication may seem to be a fairly light lift in ...

Strategies to optimize work and improve efficiency. Addressing the challenges of managing distributed project teams in megaprojects requires a targeted set of strategies that integrate technological ...

Project planning is the science of defining a series of actionable steps for achieving larger goals. Because long-term goals often require multiple steps over an extended period of time, it makes ...

We work to ensure the success of projects from the scoping and programming stages all the way through design, construction and move-in. Each project follows a carefully designed planning and execution ...