Project: UNICEF’s WASH program One of the greatest challenges with humanitarian projects is the initial sense that there is no defined project. This is what Daniel Ervin, RedR‘s assignee to UNICEF (formerly known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), discovered when he arrived in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the civil war between the Sri Lankan […] March 14, 2011 Project
Project logistics in the Asia-Pacific For an Australian, travelling to another country involves crossing a body of water by air or by sea. A flight, even from the closest access point to our nearest neighbour, takes hours. Consider then the logistical situation for countries in the Pacific, where routes take longer and services are less frequent, and you touch upon […] March 11, 2011 Cost Intermediate Risk Time
Fiona Park, major projects manager Fiona Park’s project management career began in the pre-dawn panic of the millennium. Now she’s on a different learning curve. March 11, 2011 People
Prabesh Aryal, health development project manager After graduating with a qualification in business management in the mid-1980s, Prabesh Aryal’s career path seemed set. But like the development projects the Nepalese project manager now manages, such a path is never predictable, and it was not long before the discipline of project management captured his attention. Following stints as a government and banking […] March 9, 2011 People
Project: ACT Health’s Walk-in Centre The Australian Capital Territory was approaching crisis point. A shortage of emergency department staff and general practitioners meant that patients needing treatment for a whole spectrum of ailments would have to wait their turn: those needing stitches alongside those with a sprained ankle. Something had to be done. “We were looking at different ways that […] March 3, 2011 Project
John Wiese, defence systems project director Neophilia is often characterised by a person’s readiness to adapt while shunning repetition and routine. How you might describe John Wiese in that regard may be a hard task: not only is he a keen advocate of agility in project management, he also recognises that successful, repeatable outcomes are the core of project management’s appeal. […] March 1, 2011 People
Mentor sees IT development gap “In most organisations, IT is a necessary evil,” says Rob Livingstone, founder and principal of a firm that provides mentorship programs specifically tailored to address the challenges faced by IT professionals. Mentorship programs at Rob Livingstone Advisory aim to bridge the gap between the IT department and other aspects of a business. Livingstone says in […] February 17, 2011 Advanced Communication Stakeholders
Project: Renew Newcastle Renew Newcastle is the brainchild of creative director Marcus Westbury, combining a love of his hometown and the arts. “It broke my heart that there were 150 empty buildings in the main street and I knew dozens of people at least—it’s turned out to be more—who would do anything to get access to those spaces,” […] February 9, 2011 Basic Project
