APM Weighs In: Do We Need a Coalition to Determine How a Professional Should Act?

Though there is no recent update regarding the application for Chartered status, the Association for Project Management (APM) appear to be putting significant effort into phase 2 of their “Chartered & Beyond“#1 initiative. The marketing machine of the APM has initiated a number of threads to increase their take on what professionalism is in the [...]

A Day at the Challenge

Two hours. A lot can happen in that time: you can go out to get the bread and come home branded a bigot by the nation’s most powerful man. You can play a football match. You can have a birds and the bees talk with your 11-year-old. It’s also the time we set aside last Wednesday [...]

APM and the Chartered Status – Latest Update

It was good to see the Association for Project Management (APM) today breaking their “dignified silence” regarding the progress of their quest to attain the guardianship of Chartered Status for project professionals in the UK. Andrew Bragg the CEO of the Association confirmed that the APM is still committed to achieving this Status in as [...]

Chartered Project Professional; will it be worth the effort?

Assuming that the delay in the APM getting its charter is not fatal, will it be worthwhile being a chartered project professional?. At the end of the day this depends if employers place a premium on “professional” project managers. Why should they do this? Unlike many of the older professions Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants,  chartered [...]

Haven’t heard much about Chartered Status lately…

From anywhere, from anyone, for any reason whatsoever, we here at Arras People are left only to wonder amidst the overly red skin on our necks from the past weekend: “Whither chartered status?” Doubtful we were the only ones. At any rate, back in the colder days of late January, we did such wondering aloud, asking [...]