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Project: The Australian Defence Force in East Timor

In military operations, risk tolerance is just one aspect of risk management. Brigadier Michael Moon talks about how he managed time pressures and risks in building a combat unit for East Timor.

June 3, 2011

Project

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 executive defence program management at some stage”. Following two senior roles on high profile aircraft projects—the AP-3C Orion and the Wedgetail—in succession, it isn’t hard to imagine him on the […]

March 25, 2011

People

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

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