Intermediate 5 – Project Manager – Australia's online resource for project management professionals

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

Professionalising project governance

Considering the investment a project represents in an organisation, isn’t it time there was more rigour around governance?

March 8, 2011

Project management in a Pacific context

Donors fund most projects in the Pacific as part of an aid program. Donors are not overly interested in methodology; they simply want the project carried out and the desired results achieved. Budget, in particular, is very important. Project governance varies from donor to donor. Depending on the proximity of the donor, governance may mean […]

February 24, 2011

Project management in an Asian context

This article focuses on organisational training and development in Malaysia and Thailand. The Malaysian experience involved transfer of skills and knowledge in project management within the Malaysian Department of Public Works. The initial impetus and continuing drive came from executive level government officials committed to best practice. The Implementation Group comprised internal professional staff with […]

February 24, 2011

Refining the process of delivering IT projects

A very wise and trusted colleague many years ago said to me that to effect change, the first step is to tell people you are thinking about change.

February 22, 2011

Intermediate

Applying project history lessons

What is the role of the project management office in applying project history lessons?

February 10, 2011

Project management through the 1950s

Projects have been undertaken since antiquity, however there is substantial agreement that modern project management as a distinctive discipline had its origins in the 1950s. There were, however, some relatively recent antecedents to these origins, which Peter Morris discusses in The Management of Projects, which I regard as the definitive history of project management up […]

February 10, 2011

Birth of the Critical Path Method

CPM is the most dominant scheduling network analysis technique, first developed by the company E I du Pont de Nemours (DuPont) through research in 1956, which led to the influential work of James Kelley and Morgan Walker in 1957, who used the term CPM “because of the central position that critical activities in a project […]

February 10, 2011

Shakthi Oke, multimedia project manager

Shakthi Oke started her career in the chaotic world of the media. Now a project manager at Massive Interactive, a digital creation agency, Oke implies it was only a matter of time before she discovered how to put that chaos into order. After completing a degree in communication and media studies, she spent a couple […]

February 9, 2011