What's going on in project management July 2020
APM Launches Third Golden Thread Research Paper
APM has launched the third and final research paper under the "Golden Thread" Banner.
Paper 1, published in April 2019, studied of the contribution of project management and projects to the UK''s economy and society. The report highlighted a 'hidden profession', revealing that project management contributes £156bn to the UK economy and employs almost 1 in 12 workers. It provides some fascinating P3M statistics, and gives sector insights for construction, aerospace & defence, and transport.
Paper 2, published in March 2020 gave a UK regional focus, looking at the south west, the midlands engine, the Cambridge innovation centre, the Heathrow corridor and the northern powerhouse.
With this third paper, APM is drilling down into some specific sectors.
Paper 3, just published (July 2020) focuses on 3 specific sectors - healthcare, charities & SMEs. We're delighted to see APM consider project management in SMEs.
As explained in the ProjExc blogpost we continue to be concerned at the lack of attention and support available to project managers in the SME sector. Clearly APM are in the early stages of discovery around the SME challenge, but it's very much a welcome first step.
New AI Tools for Project Management
Interest in the AI for project management space continues grow with 2 new entrants into the space over the last couple of weeks:
Chatspace is building the world's most experienced virtual PM in Ireland. According to their press release the "Chatspace virtual Project Portfolio Manager will be launched in September this year and is an AI solution built to scale, securely in the cloud or on-premise, which ensures more successful outcomes of IT projects and frees up teams to focus more on customers, creativity and new opportunities".
Planless.io announces major breakthrough technology in the project management space. The Portuguese start-up, planless.io, sees itself as "a new “intelligent” project management and collaboration platform offering, to companies all over the world, a disruptive new technology that will change the way companies and teams organize their work." See the news release here.
We’re learning about new AI tools for the PM profession every week. For our take on this challenging new world for the project profession, do refer to our introduction to AI in Project Management.
Leading by Listening
In this 2 part blog on PMI's project management.com website. Joe Wynne explores the very real link between listening and successful leadership: