PGCS Director, Patrick Weaver, PMP, PMI-SP, FCIOB, FAICD, was awarded the Wayne Wilson Award for Lifetime Contribution in Project Controls at the Project Controls Expo Australia, 2023. The award recognizes his contribution to project controls and support to hundreds of projects and trainees over 50 years.
He started as a project engineer in the UK, and worked on a number of construction projects in SE England and the Middle East before migrating to Australia in 1974. For his first 10 years in Australia, he worked as a scheduling expert for major builders in Queensland, developing and maintaining schedules for high-rise buildings, utilities, and other construction projects.
He started his own consultancy business in 1985 specializing in providing scheduling services using scheduling software, initially ICL VME PERT (mainframe), then with PCs becoming available, Micro Planner for the PC. In 1987 he became Managing Director of Micro Planning International Pty Ltd (MPI), one of the pioneers of graphical PC scheduling software for the Apple Macintosh and Windows PCs. In Australia MPI was responsible for the sales, support, and training of clients and their staff as well as providing consultancy services and input to the Micro Planner development process.
In 1999 Patrick relocated from Brisbane to Melbourne and started Mosaic Project Services Pty Ltd. While continuing to provide some consultancy services, often as an Expert in litigation or as an Arbitrator or Adjudicator Patrick’s interest shifted to training the next generation of project controls professionals and developing new ideas and concepts.
His primary area of impact in the development of the project management profession has been in the training and development of people through formal and informal courses, support, and mentoring. He has been an active member of PMI since 1986 and AIPM since 1989. Over the years he has held various board and working group positions within both organizations, as well as the Project Management College of Scheduling (PMCOS-USA) and the Guild of Project Controls.
Patrick has been a member of Standard’s Australia committee MB12 since 2006. His key contributions were to the development of the original ISO 21500:2012 Guidance on Project Management, and the development of ISO 21505:2017 Guidance on Governance where he was the team leader for one of the two main writing groups. He has also contributed to many of the other standards developed by ISO TC258 and a number of PMI Standards including the PMBOK® Guide.
He has also developed numerous papers, articles, and conference presentations, written two books, and contributed to four other books. He has also contributed to the development of the PMOZ conference, and for the last 15 years the PGCS.
Patrick has been actively involved in expanding the project controls toolset. He has supported the development of Earned Schedule and has had direct involvement in the creation of two distinct processes, the Stakeholder Circle® and Work Performance Management™. This practical legacy is curated and maintained by Patrick in the free library section of the Mosaic website. This free resource is accessed at: https://mosaicprojects.com.au/PMKI.php.