Project management software review: Mindjet

Mindjet’s visual information tool MindManager is designed for project professionals looking to collaborate with their teams to get great outcomes and drive productivity.

The State of Alliancing—Alain Mignot

AAA: Focus on State of Alliancing and 2011 Highlights

Collaborative contracting is alive and well, adapting to meet the changing policy landscape while continuing to tackle project complexity through relationship skill and enhanced productivity. Public sector agency representatives are actively applying and developing the principles of collaborative contracting and shared their perspectives with local and overseas peers at the Alliancing Association of Australasia’s (AAA’s) 2011 national convention in Brisbane in October 2011. Alliancing practitioners related their experiences over the past twelve months in applying alliancing to meet the challenges of delivering difficult infrastructure projects, including in disaster-torn communities in Christchurch and Queensland.

Authors: Alain Mignot, Frances Walker
Review status: N/A

ICT businesses invited to pitch for NSW program

ICT companies are encouraged to register for a pitching and networking event in Sydney on 8 December to help form consortiums for the NSW Government’s $1 million Collaborative Solutions Mobile Government program.

What is an Agile project?

For those project managers familiar with Gantt charts, certification, and maturity models, Agile projects may appear like disorganised chaos.

Cost-saving collaborations scoop alliance awards

The Alliancing Association of Australasia has awarded its 2011 Excellence Awards to a diverse array of infrastructure teams at a ceremony in Brisbane earlier this week.

Review: Change Starts Here—Rod Matthews

Change Starts Here is a useful tool for business to help build cohesive teams that communicate, engage and collaborate effectively.

Getting results from alliances

It is performance evaluation time on your typical collaborative infrastructure contract. Most who have been there will be familiar with the scramble to gather data and evidence, present it winningly and then refine and improve performance based on the management team’s evaluation and feedback.

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 traditional ‘hard dollar’ procurement and delivery methods. It brings together several organisations including the client, such as a government infrastructure agency or utility; and non-owner participants such as a civil engineering firm and a constructor, as well as technical specialists as required.