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Project Podcast
Project managers share their stories from the front line of the project and programme management profession. This podcast is brought to you by APM, the chartered membership organisation for the project profession. For more information on how to join APM, visit apm.org.uk.
Episodes
Project PodcastUK Parliament: building a community of engaged project professionals
Emma meets Algy Ayson, Head of Project Delivery Centre of Excellence and Profession at UK Parliament, who works on projects and programmes across both the…
Project PodcastAdvising government on radioactive waste, with Sir Nigel Thrift (CoRWM)
Professor Adam Boddison in conversation Sir Nigel Thrift, Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, or CoRWM. CoRWM’s role, as Sir Nigel…
Project PodcastThe APM President handover: reflections on project trends and future ambitions
APM CEO Professor Adam Boddison invites outgoing APM President Sue Kershaw and her successor Yvonne Thompson CBE to hand over the baton. Sue shares her…
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The future of human behaviour, with an APM Conference keynote speaker
Emma meets Thimon de Jong, founder of WHETSTON / strategic foresight, a think tank specialising in future human behaviour and societal change and the…
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The Golden Thread: What is the economic contribution of the project profession?
What is the true value of the project profession to the UK economy and society? That is the question that APM seeks to answer in its new research report, The…
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A world first: Decommissioning a nuclear fusion machine
Emma meets Steve Gilligan, a programme manager who’s playing a critical role in the world's first decommissioning of a nuclear fusion machine. He works at…
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Leading the government property profession, with Lynda Rawsthorne
Professor Adam Boddison in conversation with the Head of the Government Property Profession, Lynda Rawsthorne. Sitting within the Cabinet Office, Lynda is…
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National Trust, part 3: What’s it like to be a project management apprentice?
In the third and final part of our series on the National Trust, Emma is back at Dyrham Park near Bath to meet three project management apprentices who all…
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National Trust, part 2: Managing urban and net-zero programmes
In episode 2 of our three-part series on the National Trust, an APM Corporate Partner, Emma finds out about the Trust’s urban programmes and its work in…
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National Trust, part 1: Project management at the heart of conservation
In our three-part series on the National Trust, an APM Corporate Partner, we find out how the charity has brought project management close to its…
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The BBC’s Rachel Baldwin: From documentary maker to portfolio director
Rachel Baldwin is Head of Programme and Project Delivery at the BBC, where she leads a team of 115 people tasked with a huge variety of IT and technology…
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Why high-risk medical research needs strong project management
What’s it like to deliver life-changing medical research projects that address health problems facing communities, change health options and outcomes for…
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How to get to the top (and be yourself): Tips from an ex-CEO
Emma meets Dame Inga Beale, portfolio director and former CEO of global insurance giant Lloyd’s of London. Dame Inga was keynote speaker at APM’s 2023 Women in…
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The 15-minute conference: Top tips from APM’s Women in Project Management Conference
Ever wondered how to balance work and family, how to strategise your career and how to network effectively? In this episode, we’ve compiled some of our…
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Levelling up and lessons from major projects, with Baroness Valentine
Professor Adam Boddison meets Baroness Valentine. Having started out working in corporate finance in the City in the 1980s, in recent years Baroness Valentine…
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5 things we learned in 2023
We look back at our favourite moments from the podcast in 2023. It’s been another action-packed year in which we’ve welcomed guests from across the…
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What artificial intelligence means for the future of project management
In this episode, Emma meets three project professionals with a deep interest in artificial intelligence (AI) to consider what impact this technology is having…
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The origins of agile project management
In this episode, Emma is joined once again by Professor Darren Dalcher of the University of Lancaster. Few people have studied project management as closely or…
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How to manage menopause in the workplace
Emma meets three women to talk about menopause in the workplace. Two of them are project professionals – Rachel Jackson of Anglo American and Jo Roberts of the…
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Launching a career in the space sector, with the UK Space Agency’s Martina Blake
Professor Adam Boddison meets Martina Blake of the UK Space Agency. Martina heads up the agency’s Office for Project and Programme Management, which she set up…
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Modernising defence through projects, with Army Portfolio Director Kris Baldy
Professor Adam Boddison (APM Chief Executive) in conversation with Kris Baldy, Army Portfolio Director at the UK Ministry of Defence. Kris shares his journey…
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State-of-the-art risk management in projects: What you need to know
Emma meets Peter Simon, a Director at Lucidus Consulting and a member of the APM Risk SIG Committee. He is co-author of a new APM report looking into…
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The 15-minute conference: What you may have missed at APM’s Change Changes event
In June, APM held its annual conference in Birmingham under the heading of ‘Change Changes’. The event explored how the project profession must adapt to the…
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The female CEO leading the East West Rail project
Emma meets Beth West, CEO of East West Rail, a transport project that will open up a corridor from Oxford, through Milton Keynes and Bedford, to Cambridge and…
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How to tie in sustainability and data analytics to deliver successful projects
In this episode, Emma meets Jo Jolly, Deputy Director and Head of Project Futures at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, who recently spoke at APM's…
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Setting up a PMO from scratch in a media agency
Emma meets Dan Jennings, who recently established a project management office at the UK wing of global media agency Wavemaker. His team has worked on…
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Project management and change activism with Magic Breakfast founder Carmel McConnell
Emma meets Carmel McConnell MBE – a change activist and keynote speaker at the upcoming APM Conference on 8 June in Birmingham. Carmel founded the charity…
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Introverts in project management speak out
Emma meets three project professionals (Alex Constantine, Clare Hornsby and Natalie Talbot) to discuss what it’s like to be an introvert in a project…
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Agile or agility? A valuable addition to the project toolkit
Emma meets Adrian Dooley, who has 45 years’ experience in project management. Adrian started out his career as a construction project manager, later becoming…
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‘The best project job in the UK’: Nick Smallwood on running the Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Professor Adam Boddison (APM Chief Executive) meets Nick Smallwood, CEO of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA). The IPA oversees the UK’s National…
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An Icelandic professor on projects and a can-do mindset
Emma meets Haukur Ingi Jónasson, Professor of Project Management at the University of Reykjavik, where he runs its Master’s in Project Management (MPM) course…
Project PodcastThe hidden side of projects: Why they fail and what you can do about it
Emma meets Vip Vyas, co-author of Gorilla in the Cockpit: Breaking the hidden patterns of project failure and the system for success. Vip is founder of a…
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How big things get done, with Bent Flyvbjerg
Emma welcomes back Bent Flyvbjerg to talk about his new book, How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home…
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Openreach’s PMO: Smashing perceptions and winning awards
This special episode is guest hosted by Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton, chair of APM’s PMO Specific Interest Group, and Director of Consulting Services at…
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3 project trends for 2023 with Eddie Obeng
‘A sense maker in a daft world’ is how today’s guest, Eddie Obeng, describes himself. Eddie is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, an esteemed…
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How to lead with empathy
Emma meets Belinda Parmar, founder and CEO of The Empathy Business, who was also the keynote speaker at APM’s Women in Project Management Conference in…
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5 project management lessons we learned in 2022
In 2022, our podcast guests have shared their advice and experiences on everything from putting telescopes into space to discovering sunken ships at the bottom…
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Senior leader interview: Craig Hatch, Tetra Tech UK
In this episode, APM Chief Executive Professor Adam Boddison meets Craig Hatch, President at Tetra Tech UK. Tetra Tech is a global technology, environmental…
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Legacy and impact: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
In this episode, Emma meets Annie Hairsine, the project management brains behind the fabulously successful Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this summer. The…
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Women in Project Management: How to make it to the top
In the second of our follow-up podcasts from the APM Women in Project Management Conference, Emma invites three senior leaders from the world of projects who…
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Women in Project Management: Career tips from three female high-flyers
For this podcast, Emma invited three high-flyers from the world of projects who also contributed to APM’s Women in Project Management Conference this year…
Project PodcastBright young things: three future leaders on what they want from the profession
In this episode, Emma meets three of the profession’s bright young things – Stacey Bishop (SSE Renewables), Ashlyn O’Riordan (Turner & Townsend) and James…
Project PodcastHow to put sustainability at the heart of your work
In this episode, Emma meets Kristina Bull, a Partner at QSA Partners, a B Corp consultancy with a mission to help organisations to implement circular economy…
Project PodcastSocial mobility and projects with the Rt Hon Justine Greening
This episode sees Professor Adam Boddison, APM Chief Executive, in conversation with the Right Honourable Justine Greening. Justine served as an MP from 2005…
Project PodcastAssurance management: what it is and how to do it well
In this episode, Emma meets Sarah Coleman and Andrew Schuster to talk assurance management. Sarah is a Chartered Project Professional and Fellow of APM and PhD…
Project PodcastThe evolution of the project profession within government, with HMRC’s Joanna Rowland
This episode sees Adam Boddison, APM chief executive, in conversation with Joanna Rowland, Director General for Transformation at HMRC. The pair discuss the…
Project PodcastLessons learned from Crossrail with ex-CEO Mark Wild
In this episode, Andrew Saunders, business journalist and regular contributor to Project journal, sits down with Mark Wild, ex-CEO of Crossrail. Mark took over…
Project PodcastEndurance22: Lessons from the project to discover Ernest Shackleton's lost ship
Project journal Editor Emma De Vita meets Nico Vincent, Subsea Project Manager for the Endurance22 expedition, which on 5 March found the wreck of Endurance…
Project PodcastMind the gap: The human side of project management
The new world requires a different mindset and skillset to navigate the pitfalls of change delivery. In this podcast, Jo Stanford (Health Education England)…
Project PodcastLegal project management: a new hot area of growth
In this episode Emma De Vita, editor of Project, APM’s quarterly journal speaks to to Dee Tamlin, currently head of legal project management at Pinsent Masons…
Project PodcastRocket Man: Bloodhound's Richard Noble on Taking Risk
In this episode Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Richard Noble, the leader of some truly awe-inspiring British extreme speed projects on land, at sea…
Project PodcastThe BBC’s Evan Davis on the importance of projects
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Evan Davis, presenter of BBC 4’s daily news programme PM, and former main presenter of Newsnight and…
Project PodcastMexico's first APM award winner on Latin American megaprojects
In this episode, Emma De Vita, editor of Project, meets Marcos Fuentes, recipient of APM’s 2022 Festival of Education and Research award for Doctorate of the…
Project PodcastHS2 CEO Mark Thurston: managing an era-defining megaproject
Adam Boddison, APM chief executive, meets Mark Thurston, CEO of Europe’s largest infrastructure project, HS2. The pair discuss the evolution of the project…
Project PodcastJames Webb Space Telescope: Top tips from NASA’s outstanding project leader
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets NASA’s Bill Ochs, project manager for the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space science…
Project PodcastAlexandra Palace: Project tips from the world of festivals and events
In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Simon Fell, director of events, festivals and leisure at London’s Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally as…
Project PodcastWhy mentoring matters
In this episode, Emma De Vita asks what mentoring means, what benefits it brings for people and organisations and how to do it well. Our guest panellists…
Project PodcastMaking sense of success and failure with Darren Dalcher
In 2022, APM is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so throughout the year we’ll be sitting down with some of the movers and shakers who have shaped the project…
Project Podcast6 project management lessons we learned in 2021
It’s fair to say the past year has been another challenging one for project professionals, who have continued to navigate the complexities of the Covid…
Project PodcastInclusive design for project professionals (From the Frontline)
In our From the Frontline season, Project journal editor Emma De Vita is meeting project professionals who are working on cutting-edge projects and academics…