Happy International Project Management Day!

Without project management, would there be chaos? You might go a little crazy if you lose your work breakdown structure, but that’s because you’re a project manager and you like order and direction and orchestrated change.

Project management researcher Lynn Crawford recognised

The International Project Management Association has presented the IPMA Research Achievement Award 2011 to Australia’s Professor Lynn Crawford.

Training project managers for life

We need more project managers and we need them now, but there’s a lot more to becoming a project manager than three days training and a piece of paper.

When a project manager leaves the office

A serious condition is spreading like fireweed across the project management sector. The symptoms include glazed-over eyes, droopy shoulders, cramped hands, aversion to natural lighting, and a permanent butt print in your office chair. This condition is called Corporate Zombie Syndrome.

Cooking projects in a PMO

It takes more than ingredients to create a meal, and it takes more than resources to manage a project. You need to have standards (cooking temperature), documentation (recipes), guidance (cooking shows), economies of repetition (making meals every day), and metrics (your taste testers). Your kitchen is the project management office (PMO) of your meals.

Not enough project managers

Australia is booming with the sound of projects, but do we have enough project managers to run them? Michael Young contemplates a forthcoming shortage.

Program management literature, a comparison

Different people working in many diverse program management areas have different perceptions about the nature and application of program management.

Project management for beginners webinar

The Australian Businesswomen’s Network (ABN) will host a project management webinar for beginners on 28 April 2011.

Presented by Helen S Cooke and Karen Tate, authors of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Project Management, the webinar will take participants through a basic overview of how to successfully coordinate projects from start to finish.