Strategy and the role of program management

Strategic thinking has been at the top of the leadership agenda for executives, but implementing a strategy to realise value is not as obvious as it seems and optimising the use of resources to achieve this is even less evident. Can program management fill this gap?

10 project management trends for 2012

According to global project management training organisation ESI International, we can expect collaboration between teams, stakeholders and executives to gain importance as complexity grows. Project management in 2012 will also see growth in on-the-job training, custom project management approaches, innovative project tools and smarter resource management.

5 predictions for change management in 2012

Catherine Smithson gazes into her crystal ball to see what might be in store for change management in 2012:

“We will … rediscover the skills of diagnosing, designing and delivering facilitation that helps people make a transition.”

Disaster and emergency management conference calls for papers

The Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference has issued a call for papers to its ‘Earth: Fire & Rain 2012’ event in Brisbane to be held over 16-18 April.

David Hudson, the logical project manager

A background in Defence allowed David Hudson to understand the fundamental elements of project management, which prepared him for a role managing large programs and now a stint at the helm of a large project management association.

Project management conference teams up with ISSEC

The 8th Annual Project Management Australia Conference (PMOz) and the Improving Systems and Software Engineering Conference (ISSEC) will be co-located at the Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach over 2–5 August 2011.

Michel Thiry to run program management seminar

Renowned global project management expert Michel Thiry has announced he will host an executive seminar at the University of Technology Sydney in September.

Managing multiple projects

Program and portfolio management is well established but where is the book on managing interdependencies between projects?