Project Management News from Australia and the World May 16th 2018

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 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:

·        No need for anti-contractor drumbeat, but Defence must act on …

The sheer immensity of the SEA1000 project replacing Australia’s submarine fleet, as an exercise in project management and contract spending, gives some …

·        NAB invests $1.5bn to get back to basics

… persist with his plan to transform National Australia Bank by investing an extra $1.5 … for the half, including $540m for redundancies and project management.

·        Project Management Software Systems Market Competitive Analysis …

HTF MI recently introduced new title on “Global Project Management Software Systems Market … Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and Australia)

·        Image Resources’ $50m Boonanarring project fully funded

Image Resources’ Boonanarring zircon mineral sands project, around 80km … for the construction and operation of Boonanarring project management; structural, … of the highest-grade undeveloped mineral sands projects in Australia, and is …

·        Government’s $89bn shipbuilding project at ‘high risk’ of expensive …

Government’s $89bn shipbuilding project at ‘high risk’ of expensive blowout, audit warns … ability to meet program schedules, and management of the industrial base,” the … The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) said the accelerated …

·        Coalition and Labor strike deal over Murray-Darling basin plan

It also includes an assurance that the 605GL project will be delivered by linking … “Today, Tony Burke and the Australian Labor party have taken my hand and I … be paired with works and water management reforms so it could be used when, …

·        Creating the next generation of space innovators

It will also give them useful experience and skills in project management, … collaborations that even include universities from Europe, Australia and the USA.

·        Canberra courts construction delayed, with warning of further blowouts

Juris is a consortium comprised of Laing O’Rourke Australia Construction, … “These savings are greater than the project management and other costs incurred …

·        CBA reveals promising regtech AI results, proceeds with caution

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has revealed the results of a regtech pilot that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to …

·        More questions raised over OneSKY project

OneSKY, the $1.2 billion project to integrate Australia’s military and civilian air … 5431 Phase 3 Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS) project, .

·        Global Construction Project Management Software Market 2018 …

This report also elaborates Construction Project Management Software market … Australia, Canada, Middle East, Brazil, South America, Mexico, India, Russia, …

·        Engineering giant Bechtel named project manager for Texas bullet train

Global engineering giant Bechtel will work with bullet train developer Texas Central on project management for the $15 billion high-speed rail project planned …

·        What Exactly Is Agile? A Definition of Agile Project Management

The big difference between Agile and the rest of the project management buzzwords that came before it? Agile is an actual approach to project management …

·        Product and project management roles start to merge

Andy Jordan, president of Honduras-based management consulting firm, Roffensian Consulting, and author of ‘Risk Management for Project Driven …

·        Do spreadsheets have a role in project management?

Whatever business you are in, it’s likely that somewhere in your organization there is a person or team responsible for project management. If they are handling …

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