From DIIF to CIIF: The IPA’s role in delivering Infrastructure Funds
The IPA’s purpose is to support departments to deliver projects and programmes more effectively, however when it comes to Infrastructure Funds, this is an example of where the IPA is delivering a...
View ArticleStriving for Excellence in DWP
A guest blog from James Kemp, Deputy Head of Profession at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP): “The Project Delivery Profession is deeply valued.” “Get involved and be challenging.” “Complexity...
View ArticleOne Year, One Hundred Presentations of the Project Delivery Capability Framework
The month of May is a time of anniversaries in Project Delivery. It is one year since the Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF) was launched, 6 months since the Government Online skills Tool...
View Article5G: A network for the future
The IPA has helped establish DCMS’s 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme that will help the UK be among the leading nations in developing and deploying new capabilities enabled by 5G. In the 1980s...
View ArticleLast year I entered the “APM Project Manager of the Year” Award category. And...
I’m the Chinook Delivery Team Leader in the MoD. It’s a dream job, working in an amazing team, an iconic defence capability with a very supportive customer, engaged industrial partner and doing a job...
View ArticleBehind the scenes: IPA’s new benchmarking team
In order to effectively initiate a project it is important that we are able to articulate the desired outcomes. This is where benchmarking - the process of comparing the cost, schedule and performance...
View ArticleFinding solutions to poor payment that work for all
Payment in the construction industry has come under closer scrutiny since Carillion’s collapse, and rightly so. It is unacceptable when suppliers are not paid fairly and on time. But it’s also not a...
View ArticleBuilding 'A Brilliant Civil Service': the Project Delivery Senior...
Civil Service HR had an urgent need for a leader in project and portfolio management, as a Deputy Director approached maternity leave. Luckily the Project Delivery Senior Brokering Service was on hand...
View ArticleDFID’s Global Projects: From safeguarding against abuse to Ebola
Lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Safeguarding against Sexual Abuse might not be what you would expect to see on the agenda of a typical Project Delivery Conference, but this...
View ArticleLaunch of the Global Infrastructure Programme
Foreign Office Minister Mark Field recently launched the Global Infrastructure Programme - a cross Whitehall initiative to help sustain economic growth through the development of economic and social...
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