mccormick.northwestern.edu

A Non-Traditional Career Path

Eryaman graduated from Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Project Management (MPM) program and briefly explored the built environment sector as a financial analyst focused on corporate ...
Government Executive

Program Management Is Much More Complex Than Many Leaders Understand

The Government Accountability Office has long bemoaned the dearth of effective program management across government. Its list of high-risk programs, which encompass such disparate management areas as ...
Online Recruitment

New career planning tool helping project managers pursue their professional ambitions

AXELOS has launched a new career planning tool - Career Paths - to support project and programme managers identify and achieve their career aspirations AXELOS has launched a new career planning tool - ...
University of Dayton

Acquisition Program Manager: Essential Skills, Job Description, and Career Path in Government Contracting

So what is an Acquisition Program Manager (APM)? What does that even mean? In this article, I hope to clarify some of this and provide a boundary for what the University of Dayton’s (U.D.) Government ...
Government Executive

House Members Pursue Holy Grail of Federal Program Efficiency

In a sign of new visibility for the three-year-old congressional Government Efficiency Caucus, two House members on Thursday introduced a bill to create a new agency program management career path and ...
Nextgov

The path to better program management: a road still less traveled

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Initiated in 1990, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) High-Risk List identifies federal programs vulnerable to fraud, waste, ...
C&EN

Project Management

Being a successful project manager has more to do with interpersonal skills and strategic thinking than hard technical skills. You must be able to motivate a team, work well with others, and be ...