Project management education in a lean environment
Organisations are becoming leaner—reducing waste, trimming budgets and heightening efficiencies—in a bid to cope with global economic...
Project: Gold Coast University Hospital
The $1.76 billion Gold Coast University Hospital is the largest public health infrastructure project currently underway in Australia....
Project consultant or contractor?
Many project contractors call themselves ‘consultants’ but are only contractors. Contractors bring skills, experience and an ability to do...
Delivering strategy via projects
How often have you been involved in a project where there was no clear reference to the organisation’s strategy in the project charter? Or...
Communicating project value
Change is challenging because a significant component of business analytics revolves around encouraging an organisation to change existing...
Review: Collaborating Effectively—Harvard Business Review
Collaborating Effectively by Harvard Business Review is a collection of nine inspiring articles filled with ideas and best practices to...
Resource management in project schedules
Resourcing is another of those topics which is initially simple, but once you scratch the surface you find a world of complexity. The...
Training project managers for life
We need more project managers and we need them now, but there’s a lot more to becoming a project manager than three days training and a...
Change: beyond project management strategy
Research in neuroscience now reveals that our brains are designed to seek a balanced state. Safety and security are primary needs and the...
When a project manager leaves the office
A serious condition is spreading like fireweed across the project management sector. The symptoms include glazed-over eyes, droopy...