The Story of Responsible Project Management (contd.)
Bilbao, Spain
February 2020, spain
Back to the Research and Education in Project Management Conference in Bilbao as invited keynote speaker on The Manifesto for Responsible Project Management where Carsten Wolff of Dortmund University in Germany and Astana IT University, Kazakhstan, became the 100th signatory to the Manifesto.
Gleeds, London
February 2020, london
We were delighted to deliver a presentation at the London offices of Gleeds, Global Property and Construction Consultants, followed by a corporate signing ceremony by the Gleeds Project Management community and Graham Harle, Gleeds Global Chief Executive on behalf c2,000 project professionals working in the construction industry worldwide.
march 2020, birmingham
Our RPM UK Road Show kicked off in Birmingham, hosted by PMI (UK) Volunteer Nigel Smith of Midlands Branch at University College Birmingham. Enthusiastic project professionals, academics and students rose to the challenge of planning a project responsibly.
All our activities have moved online since the visit to Birmingham due to the travel and socialising restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
april 2020, Virtual Lunch & Learn series launch
Launch of our Lunch & Learn virtual Meetups. On 1st April we launched an online, conversational series of event designed to support Project Professional during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first event attracted 43 enthusiastic participants and generated useful discussion about having Responsible Conversations in the context of the pandemic. Our second event attracted more than 70 participants. We will be hosting virtual events every fortnight, please check the schedule on Meetup.
May - December 2020 virtual internship scheme pilot
As the impact of the COVID-19 pandmic was felt across the project management world, we observed that some project organisations were wrestling with their own responses to the crisis while at the same time the opportunities for recent graduates were disappearing. This prompted us to collaborate with the Major Projects Knowledge Hub, several universities and the Association for Project Management to set up a pilot scheme for Virtual Internships in Project Management.
May 2020, APM Webinar
july 2020, UK GOVERnment
Responsible Project Management is recommended for delivering UK Government Major Projects.
In written evidence to the HOUSE OF COMMONS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE, the Chartered Body for the Project Profession in the UK – the Association for Project Management (APM) – suggested that the UK Government should “focus on Responsible Project Management”.
The APM’s submission to the Select Committee and included in their July 2020 Report ‘Delivering the Government’s infrastructure commitments through major projects’ used the definition from the Guide to Responsible Project Management (2019):
“Responsible Project Management … is the concept of managing projects with specific attention to the intended and unintended impacts of the project and its outcomes, in both the short and long term, thereby delivering economic, social and environmental impact.”
september 2020, research launch
The start of our research on the competencies needed for RPM was delayed by the pandemic. By September we were finally able to begin the project that is funded from HEIF-6.