The halt in skilled immigration and workforce mobility has exacerbated the skills shortage in construction. While the tentative reopening...
Can project managers succeed at complexity?
In 1949, work started on the Snowy Mountains Scheme to provide hydroelectricity and irrigation waters to southeast Australia. The network...
How Agile helps deliver innovation
With so much C-level focus on innovation, you could be forgiven for thinking that as long as a business keeps coming up with new and...
10 ways project managers can create watertight contracts
The purpose of a contract is simply to prevent misunderstandings and to provide remedies if one party is harmed when the other fails to...
Defining project controls
Several months ago at the Project Governance and Controls Symposium in Canberra I was asked to define project controls. The Australian...
A Tale of Two CPMs
(with apologies to Charles Dickens) It was is the best of times, it was is the worst of times: project management knowledge, understanding...
Is Australia ready for modular construction projects?
As the industrial world tightens its belt on capital expenditure across the board, companies are under pressure to deliver more in...
Improving project management through metamodelling
There is a category of business modelling tools emerging in response to the growing complexity in business. This complexity is being...
The future of major project delivery
Why do projects fail? Projects generally fail due to inadequacies in project definition, project structure, project communication and...
Project Management Institute updates standards
Most people with an interest will know that over the holiday period the Project Management Institute (PMI) released the PMBOK® Guide 5th...









