Effective benefits management is a continuous process that spans the entire project lifecycle and extends into the operational phase of the resulting asset or change.
With a population just shy of five million, New Zealand may not be the first country that springs to mind for projects at scale needing innovation.
For the winter 2017 issue of Project, I contributed an article on surge management which is the term I use to refer to the business of both responding to surge events and creating them.
The traditional approach to risk management does not take into account human error.
There are innumerable projects across the world that are in need of completion.
Over the last three decades I have seen tremendous developments in planning, risk management, benefits management and governance all supported by process standardisation, tools and training.
Imagine this: you’ve made it to the final round of interviews for your dream role.
Like many project managers in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector, they first started their careers camouflaged in not-so-glamorous lab coats and safety goggles.
Gregory Brennan, service delivery manager at WSP, had a rose-tinted view of his allotment when he first took it on.
At one of the earliest APM Portfolio Management Steering Committee meetings we decided to take our own medicine and adopt project management best practice!We did this by spending some agenda time thinking before doing.