APM Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) offer a forum for collaboration and knowledge development in all areas of project, programme and portfolio management.

They are a coming together of practice, consultancy and academia working to produce guides, white papers, conferences, seminars and a space to network and share ideas.

Specific Interest Groups are formed by groups of volunteers and provide a unique meeting place for experts, beginners, specialists and generalists from all industry sectors.

The SIG community is governed by a steering group consisting of:

* four volunteer representatives appointed by the Board;

* an APM board member who has specific responsibility for volunteers

* the APM chief executive;

* APM volunteers manager.

The steering group gives its members the chance to influence the future development of APM SIGs and its role is to co-ordinate SIG initiatives, ensure their alignment with APM strategies and provide general advice to APM on the operation and development of their SIGs.

Representatives from the SIGs meet as a group at two fora every year, jointly over a weekend with the equivalent group from branches, to network and share experiences.