Project Management News from Australia and the World August 31st 2014

Here at Your Project Manager we consider it our job to keep on top of all that is project management not just here in Queensland and Australia, but also worldwide. Just like others across all walks of life, we have our favourite online project management resources which help us to keep abreast of all the latest news, views, and advances in our sphere of expertise.

In exactly the same way that you and your business use market knowledge to keep ahead of your competition, so it helps us to maintain the leading position of project management advice and on-site training.

Here are just a few of the things that we’ve found of most interest over the last few days and that we feel might be of interest to you, too.

·        Project Management Facts That May Surprise You …

According to the Project Management Institute, the country with the top salary for project management practitioners was Australia at US$134.658. The United States came in at #3 at US$108,000, while Canada hit the mark at US$95,140.

·        Inclusion Project Manager Mekong Region

ProBono Australia – Jobs.

Oxfam’s Inclusion Project is an AUD$6million project funded by DFAT as one of the 4 pillars in the Australian Government’s Mekong Water …

·        CBRE Acquires Australian Firm, Buying Spree Goes On

This combined operation will hire 70 project management professionals, with the integrated CBRE Project Management team led by Paragon …

·        BHP announces raft of management changes in wake of …

Kerr will now retire from the current group management committee on 1 October and will be replaced as CFO Peter Beaven, who is the current head of copper. Brendan Harris, the current head of Group Investor Relations, … Australian Mining on Twitter … Description: Expressions Of Interest We are currently working with a mining company in the Central Eyre Peninsula, who are developing the largest magnetite project in Australia. The company have released their …

·        With project management, beginning counts most

According to the Project Management Institute’s 2014 ‘Pulse of the Profession’ research, very few organisations (9 per cent) rate themselves as excellent on …

·        The Vessel for Innovation – Project Management Institute

These people confuse innovation with creativity and believe that trying to implement a well-thought-out, standardized process to manage innovation will constrain the results. But the opposite is true: A method for innovation …