The Association for Project Management is a British
professional organisation
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for
project
A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal.
An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of even ...
Royal Charter
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in 2017, and is a
registered charity
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. It has over 37,500 individual and 550 corporate members, and is the largest professional body of its kind in the United Kingdom. The head office is in
Princes Risborough
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in
Buckinghamshire
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The association was founded in 1972 as the UK branch of INTERNET, now the International Project Management Association. Weaver (2007) recalled, that:
:"The UK branch of INTERNET (now the APM), was originated by the ‘pioneering seven’ whose meeting at an INTERNET (later IPMA) expert seminar in Zurich in 1971 inspired them to start a UK branch, which held its first meeting in London in May 1972. The first executive meeting on INTERNET(UK) was held in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel, Stockholm on 13 May 1972 during the 3rd annual world congress of INTERNET. Jack Grimshaw was the original chairman, others in the founding group included Dr Jim Gordon and Dennis Gower. Annual membership fees were set at £1, and within a month membership had reached 78 (PMI at the time were charging £7).Patrick Weaver (2007), The origins of Modern Project Management '' p. 22-23 footnote
With the emergence of the
internet
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in the 1990s, the global project management association INTERNET was renamed International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the UK Branch Association for Project Management (APM).
It received its Royal Charter on 6 January 2017.
Sir Bob Reid
Sir Robert Paul Reid (born 1 May 1934) was Chairman of the British Railways Board from 1990 until 1995.
Early life
Reid was educated at the University of St Andrews and has a graduate degree from European Business School London.
Career
He join ...
* 2000 - 2004 : Tony Ridley
*2004 - 2010 : Martin Barnes
* 2012 - 2015 : Tom Taylor
* 2015 - 2019 : David Waboso
* 2019 - : Sue Kershaw
Chairman
* 1972 - 1977 : Jack Grimshaw
* 1977 - 1979 : Herbert Walton
* 1982 - 1986 :
Eric Gabriel
Eric Gabriel (2 April 1927 – 2015) was a British mechanical engineer in the construction industryAudrey Stevenson.Eric Gabriel obituary" ''The Guardian,'' Tuesday 22 September 2015. and 4th president of the International Project Management Ass ...
Audrey Stevenson. Eric Gabriel obituary " ''The Guardian,'' Tuesday 22 September 2015.
* 1986 - 1991 : Martin Barnes
* 1991 - 1993 : Tim Carter
* 1993 - 1996 : Peter Morris
* 1996 - 1998 :
Office of Government Commerce
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Overview
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Construction Industry Council
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History
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Project Management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...