PMO health check for projects
Tears flowed down the sponsor’s face. The health specialist said, “It’s time, you have to let him go”. They gazed down at the patient...
Surviving project change
A significant organisational change event such as a merger, acquisition or change in CEO can have a dramatic impact on existing business...
How to work with a change manager on a project
Change management is a relatively new and often misunderstood discipline when it comes to involvement at a project or program level,...
Does project success rely on good governance?
What do we mean by governance and by project success? Most projects, even non-complex projects require some form of governing—it can be as...
Project: Qantas A380
You can make all the jokes you want about delayed flights, but you should feel a little sympathy for Qantas' Airbus A380 program, a jumbo...
Risk and interdependency in programs
There has been plenty written about how a different approach is needed when managing a program rather than a project. Sometimes the...
Project management software review: Binfire
Project management and collaboration solutions have matured greatly in recent years and today numerous robust, capable options exist....
Getting results from alliances
It is performance evaluation time on your typical collaborative infrastructure contract. Most who have been there will be familiar with...
Lavinia Buckley, the travelling project manager
Once upon a time, Lavinia Buckley was a mechanical engineering graduate, unsure of what to do with herself. After dabbling in risk...
Program management literature, a comparison
Different people working in many diverse program management areas have different perceptions about the nature and application of program...