Posted by: Administrator
on 1 May 2009
The recent Budget suggests that the government will be cancelling major projects for the foreseeable future. Is this the right approach? Well only if the original purpose and business benefits of the project are no longer required. We don't go into major projects quickly or lightly they need an established business case and a great deal of money has been spent on them prior to the contract award.
Posted by: OneOne Hundred
on 27 Apr 2009
Essentially a project is a temporary organisation with staff drawn from different organisations, departments and skill bases to undertake an ad-hoc task. When that task is finished without a process in place to manage it, the knowledge and experience accrued by the project team disperses with team members on project closure. During the project lifecycle, further dispersion of the knowledge occurs through the churn of personnel arising from changes in resource need, changes in responsibilities, career moves and promotions. Indeed it is often the case that few of the team in place at project closure were involved in the project initiation. The implication is that without formal measures to acquire and promote the lessons learned during the project, the knowledge will be lost or dispersed on or before project closure.
