A recordbreaking year for project management body
Last year the UK’s largest professional body for project professionals, the Association for Project Management (APM), celebrated a record-breaking year of achievement.
The year 2014 saw APM’s annual revenue grow by £300k from the previous year to £7.5m, the highest in the association’s history, highlighting growth across all areas of the charity.
As well as membership reaching an all-time high of 21,150 individual and 547 corporate members, APM had a record 14,400 candidates sit qualifications last year.
APM also marked the 21st anniversary of its Northern Ireland branch with a joint celebratory event at Ulster University to coincide with the 25th anniversary of its MSc in Construction Business & Project Management.
Speaking at the event which was attended by senior practitioners, academia and alumni in the field of project management, APM President, Tom Taylor, congratulated the NI branch committee on its achievements and highlighted the impact APM was having with employers and practitioners here.
He said: “APM’s growing corporate membership base demonstrates the increasing recognition at a corporate level of the value of the project management professional’s skills-set and an increasing awareness by employers of the benefit of a more formalised and professional project management approach.
“I am delighted to see high calibre, locally-based companies, such as Allstate NI. In 2000, 47% of firms who ran projects had a Project Management Office. By 2014, this figure had grown to 80% with each having on average eight staff members with finance and IT now the two largest business sectors for project management recruits.”
He also congratulated APM Honorary Fellow and Ulster University Course Director Mike Browne and his university colleagues on 25 successful years of its highly regarded MSc in Construction Business & Project Management and the valuable contribution it makes to raising the standards of the project management profession.
The event was co-hosted by Provost and Pro Vice Chancellor Alastair Adair.