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Project management education, more than training

During a regular catch up, the executive sponsor and the PMO manager were discussing ways to get more improvements in project delivery capability. “I think better education across the company of how projects deliver on strategy will have a significant impact,” said the PMO manager. “Well, we’ve put a lot of your staff through project […]

March 17, 2011

Project: Horizon Power

Upgrading power supplies is the bread and butter of companies such as Horizon Power, a fully-integrated Western Australian government-owned business delivering energy solutions in regional Western Australia. However when the service being delivered is to remote and often isolated parts of the country, the project management approach used requires innovation and above all must be […]

March 17, 2011

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Project management graduates in transition

One of the lasting memories of my work experience stint at a regional council as part of my civil engineering degree was how useless I felt. The disconnect between what the council needed me to do, and the skills and experience I had obtained through my undergraduate studies, was significant. I still remember the level […]

March 17, 2011

Education

Finding the gaps in project management

In less than two decades project management has developed from a body of knowledge to aspiring to become a profession. But where is it now? Where is it going? How will it get there? How has project management emerged in organisations and been affected by their evolution? Projects carried out in organisations—such as organisational changes […]

March 16, 2011

The basics of project management recruitment

Corporations the world over are always seeking to increase corporate value. Change and project management are key variables in the equation for increasing corporate returns. Business today is changing faster than ever before and with it comes numerous challenges, particularly for the people needed to navigate the business successfully. With the rapid changes in consumer […]

March 16, 2011

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Skills

Why IT Projects Fail

It is true that IT projects have a phenomenal rate of failure? An examination of what makes IT projects prone to failure and what good project managers can do.

March 16, 2011

Alliancing trends towards Early Contractor Involvement

More than 12 years of alliance contracting in Australasia’s public infrastructure sector has yielded a range of relationship-based models to successfully deliver projects. The Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contracting methodology in Australia is a unique form of collaborative contracting, inspired by the UK’s Highways Agency. ECI contracting has rapidly gained popularity since Queensland’s Department of […]

March 16, 2011

PMOs in Asia: The New Frontier

Project management is moving through Asia with the speed and tenacity of a raging bushfire. I have recently been working my way through Singapore, Hong Kong and Mainland China talking with organisations from several different industries about their PMOs and their attitudes towards project management in general. The vibe as I moved through Asia was […]

March 15, 2011

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