Top 10 blogs of 2023

At APMG, we consider ourselves fortunate to have access to the valuable knowledge, experience, and expertise of contributors who provide us with high-quality and insightful content for our subscribers, followers, and website visitors.

See below for a countdown of the top 10 most popular blogs of 2023.

At number 10 we have an extremely valuable resource. This blog is based on our “Level Up” episodes, which constitute a weekly panel Q&A session to help you level up in your career, livestreamed with APMG to YouTube and LinkedIn.

The blog itself offers a toolkit that compliments the purpose of the episodes – to help you build your path to your desired career. You can expect to find an episode search tool to help you navigate your way to specific episodes, book recommendations on APMG’s store, as well as May’s book of the month, and subject related books of the month (AgileBA, Cyber and BRM.) Happy reading! 

Read: Level Up your Career - FREE CAREER TOOLKIT.

Despite being New Years reflections, these 5 tips are timeless. They can be implemented consistently throughout your career to help you stay on track when it comes to applying change management good practice. These 5 reflections are designed to really make you think about how change is implemented, and what hard and soft skills are involved when doing so, ensuring you and your organization thrive whilst undergoing that all important transition.

Read: 5 New Year Reflections for Change Managers.

In this article, Milvio DiBartolomeo delves into effective portfolio management practices, addressing prevalent mistakes and misconceptions across various industries in his most recent whitepaper. The paper explores the rationale behind maintaining a "waiting list" of valuable opportunities poised to utilize resources, including funds and personnel, as they become available. It offers abundant insights and advice for enhancing and optimizing portfolio management practices.

If you want to brush up on your portfolio management knowledge, or are interested in the most efficient process, we recommend this blog!

Read: Is your Portfolio management process a funnel or tunnel?

In this fascinating blog, Senior Technical Writer and CPTC Foundation and Practitioner candidate Meg Nelson talks us through her non-traditional career path from a degree in social work and founding a charity in Uganda, to experiencing the “aha!” moment during her time abroad whilst establishing and working for charity - which happened to involve a lot of technical communication - that made her realise it was her passion. Meg discloses how the CPTC certification aided in employers taking her seriously and landing her first job. Take a read of Meg’s inspiring story.

Read: Certified Professional Technical Communicator (CPTC) candidate showcase.

This blog generously offers five invaluable tips to make the process of organizational change efficient and successful, emphasising the importance of a significant shift in both mindset and behaviour. Consider this blog your go-to resource when undergoing organisational change, much like a checklist to ensure your planning process and execution is clear and effective.

Read: 5 Tips to make Organisational Change Easier.

At number 5, we have another very insightful candidate showcase from Delroy Dennis, Procurement and Project Manager at the Ministry of National Security in The Bahamas, and Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer (CRIO) candidate. Delroy speaks of his journey into Public-Private Partnerships and why he chose to pursue the CRIO certification, speaking on how the majority of greenhouse gas emissions today are associated with carbon-intense infrastructure construction, and how it is a priority of the Government to develop and finance smart-infrastructure solutions to address the many risks of climate change.

Find out more about Delroy’s journey and his experience with the Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer (CRIO) certification.

Read: Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer (CRIO) candidate showcase.

This blog expands on NCSC Certified Training’s rebrand to NCSC Assured Training in reaction to a number of new certification schemes being launched, also including information on APMG’s role in Assured Training, the goal of NCSC Assured Training, and a link to search for an NCSC Assured Training Course.

Read: NCSC Assured Training – the new name for quality cyber security training.

Consider this your go-to resource for everything project management. This comprehensive blog covers everything from the history of project management, it benefits, core values and key principles, methodologies, methods and techniques, 3 informative videos: an overview of project management and scrum, Agile planning techniques made simple, a Level Up episode titled “How to manage an Agile Project” and even an Agile glossary with common terminology!

Never feel uncertain about your project management knowledge again, keep this bookmarked for any time you need a refresh on Agile Project Management.

Read: What is Agile Project Management?

This blog, written by CEO of APMG International Richard Pharro, is designed to provide an overview of highly accredited project management certifications and organizations, including Richard’s own opinion on the best options, helping you make an informed decision as to which project management certification is right for you. With each certification mentioned in the article, Richard also covers the main benefits of that specific certification as well as who the certification is targeted at, and if there are any prerequisites for the application process. We can certainly see why this is a popular read; if you want to take a project management certification but feel overwhelmed with option paralysis, this blog is perfect for you!

Read: What is the best project management certification?

At number one and with the most views of 2023 is our Agile Project Management Sample Exam Paper blog. This blog is an essential resource for those preparing to take their Agile Project management Foundation and Practitioner exam, including an overview of the exam, practice exam questions and answers, a link to an official sample exam, a practice paper, information on exam style and structure, a link to an official AgilePM study guide, study tips and exam preparation resources, and even a YouTube video by Chief Examiner and Agile Change Agent Melanie Franklin, covering important exam tips for candidates.

This blog might just be the difference between getting that pass!

Read: Agile Project Management Sample Exam Paper.