Alliancing benefits and challenges in infrastructure projects
Alliance contracting offers an unprecedented way to create a strong synergy between partners to deliver a project too complex for...
Danielle Toon, Indigenous community program manager
To see Aboriginal children pick up a teaching manual and pretend they are the teacher confidently delivering lesson content is fantastic,”...
Project management education today
A vox pop of educators on the gaps between education and professional project management. Neil Hockey Learning & Development Manager...
Cloud computing challenges project management
Cloud computing is a very broad term for the ‘IT systems via the internet’ that hold the application technologies they run by an external...
Project: Building the Education Revolution
When the school bell rang on the first day of the first term in 2011, construction company Hansen Yuncken had the majority of its school...
The changing face of portfolio management
Change is here to stay. Not so long ago, the accepted wisdom was that organisations would introduce change, stop and consolidate, then...
James Hood, the air force project manager
Group Captain James Hood craves complexity in his projects. That's what he indicates when he says he wants to get to "a higher level of...
Project: Telstra’s Broadbanding the Top End
At a physical level, Telstra's Broadbanding the Top End (Phase 1) project was an impressive engineering feat—800 kilometres of cable laid...
The cost of ignoring risk
Having followed the saga of the doomed insulation program, which culminated in the stepping down of Peter Garrett as Minister for the...
An indigenous perspective of projects, community and culture
Any person who comes from one culture and is tasked with working with another should take into account other people's needs and cultural...