Good News (Andrew Davies award, Farnborough,
Paris Olympics), Bad News (Horizon), Not Sure News
(Business Cases, HS2 Platforms, Buckingham Palace
Reservicing Programme), Post Election Matters
(Drax BioMass, Power Subsidies, Dogger Bank South,
Lower Thames Crossing), Professional Society News
(New APM Trustee Carolyn Brown, New APM Hon Fellow
Hassan Choudhury), Local Projects (Stonehenge,
Salisbury River Park Phase 1, Salisbury Museum),
Wildlife Projects (Ospreys, Scottish Bog, Norfolk Halkers)
and PM vocabulary bête-noirs
REPORT
By Miles Shepherd
Executive Advisor & International Correspondent
Salisbury, England, UK
INTRODUCTION
Our esteemed Editor may have reminded you that this is our 144th edition, something to celebrate, I hope you agree. This is my 138th report and I had the dubious privilege of writing the only Regional Report in that first edition twelve years. I am very glad to say that many of the other contributors are still contributing, and we have been joined by an interesting bunch to make this still one of the most read non-academic project management journals online.
This is supposed to be the so-called Silly Season where the respected members of the Fifth Estate scramble for any stories to fill their pages. You can tell this is an antediluvial expression as few have pages. My Technology Imp informs me that in these modern times, the term is most strongly associated with bloggers, hacktivists, and media outlets that operate outside the mainstream. I’m not entirely clear where this leaves me but there is a lot of real activity in the project world to report.
First up is the Good News section with the outcome of one major program to record, some major events either under way or completed; then we comment on some Bad News, mainly decision making and Horizon, before covering the less easy to define stuff about the project world. Finally, we end this report with news of some local projects.
GOOD NEWS
The best news I saw last month was the announcement of this year’s PMI Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Andrew Davies. Already recognised for his outstanding short book, Projects: A Very Short Introduction, (Oxford University Press, 2017), he received the prestigious David I. Cleland Literature Award from PMI. Needless to say, he has an outstanding record of research on project related topics.
The next best news was the end of the General Election. I was not so interested in the result as in the competing programmes conducted by the various political parties. The cynics out there will say the unedifying spectacle of stakeholder manipulation had the expected outcome and it all gives competitive project management a bad name. Fortunately, none of the protagonists claimed they employed project management approaches. I’ll come back to the Post Election implications in a later section.
There have been any number of high profile events that depend on good planning and management, thus qualifying as projects. Take for example, Farnborough, or as it is properly called the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA2024) which closed at the end of the month…
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How to cite this report: Shepherd, M. (2024). UK Project Management Roundup, report, PM World Journal, Vol. XIII, Issue II, February. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/pmwj144-Aug2024-Shepherd-UK-project-management-round-up-report.pdf
About the Author
Miles Shepherd
Salisbury, UK
Miles Shepherd is an executive editorial advisor and international correspondent for PM World Journal in the United Kingdom. He is also managing director for MS Projects Ltd, a consulting company supporting various UK and overseas Government agencies, nuclear industry organisations and other businesses. Miles has over 30 years’ experience on a variety of projects in UK, Eastern Europe and Russia. His PM experience includes defence, major IT projects, decommissioning of nuclear reactors, nuclear security, rail and business projects for the UK Government and EU. His consulting work has taken him to Japan, Taiwan, USA and Russia. Past Chair and Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM), Miles is also past president and chair and a Fellow of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). He was, for seven years, a Director for PMI’s Global Accreditation Centre and is immediate past Chair of the ISO committee developing new international standards for Project Management and for Program/Portfolio Management. He is currently Chairman of the British Standards Institute project management committee. He was involved in setting up APM’s team developing guidelines for project management oversight and governance. Miles is based in Salisbury, England and can be contacted at miles.shepherd@msp-ltd.co.uk.
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