The Special Interest Group for Project Management's first meeting was held on 22 January 2014, and was followed by their forming AGM. The PMSIG provides a forum for all those in the profession managing and delivering projects across the historic environment sector irrespective of project role, stage or type.
The group seeks to improve the impact and benefit of work carried out by professionals in historic environment practice by making the principles of good project management more widely understood. Principles like the importance of focussing on end goals, of planning to achieve goals, of managing risk and change in projects, of ensuring the quality of work produced, defining appropriate roles with relation to specific expertise in project teams and of properly structured communication.
The PMSIG is a focal point for the promotion and development of project management standards within the profession with a particular focus on
- promoting Project Management as a distinct discipline with its own skill set
- updating our thinking about effective Project Management during all project stages
- providing a knowledge hub for good practice, to disseminate principles, practice and techniques across the profession
- delivering training
- providing the opportunity for mentoring and coaching
- drawing on outside expertise and best practice.