No new major projects in Victoria’s State Budget

Victoria’s State Budget has accommodated funding for major projects initiated by the former Labor government, but will not start any new major projects because of the higher than expected debt incurred, according to Treasurer Kim Wells.

May 5, 2011

• News

PMO health check for projects

How do you spot an unhealthy project? And what’s the role of the PMO in pulling the plug?

May 4, 2011

• Project Management Office

Lavinia Buckley, the travelling project manager

First she went to the UK, then she worked in transport. Now Lavinia Buckley is back in Australia and already had a hand in an award-winning hospital project.

April 8, 2011

• People

Brisbane’s Mater Hospital refurbishment project complete

Brisbane’s Mater Hospital refurbishment project has been complete. The $3 million project involved making the interior of the reception and waiting area and all wards on levels 8-10 including nurse’s stations, corridors and patient lounges of the hospital into a hotel-like space. “The intent for the refurbishment was for a more hotel-like feel and for […]

March 10, 2011

• News

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