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Closing the 2024 symposium, this presentation celebrates a record attendance of over 465 participants and highlights the outstanding quality of the sessions. It also announces the theme for PGCS 2025: "More speed, less haste: returning to fundamentals," and calls for research proposals addressing contemporary project delivery challenges.
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This paper looks at why we need better quantitative test & evaluation techniques for project governance, the six-sigma test techniques used by U.S. DoD & major industries, and the building competencies in test design & analysis using the techniques.
CASG Integrated Investment Portfolio Integrated Master Schedule: Strengthening Portfolio Visibility and Performance
TBH was engaged by the CASG Integrated Delivery and Architecture Directorate, Program Delivery Analysis and Planning Branch of Integration Division in December 2021 to develop a portfolio level Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the CASG Integrated Investment Portfolio (IIP). This presentation will cover: The business challenge facing CASG and Defence
Clarifying, Measuring, & Reporting on Benefits & Impact in Public Sector Programs & Projects as Part of Effective Governance Frameworks
In a landscape where public sector programs and projects are expected to demonstrate meaningful impact and tangible benefits, clarity and alignment are more important than ever. This session offers a purposeful and practical exploration of how benefits management frameworks and practices can be applied at the program and project level
While co-design can accelerate delivery, it may fail without solid project foundations. Through a practical case study, this presentation reveals how an unconstrained process led to a solution 10x over budget. Learn why establishing strategic context, stakeholder alignment, and project constraints before co-designing is essential for success.
A commercial validation of the use of EV and ES to enhance project performance.
Many authors have examined e-procurement processes and attempted to define their applications within discrete categories and formulate precise definitions. This presentation outlines some problematic issues and addresses some perennial difficulties which inhibit the formulation of a holistic definition of e-procurement and e-commerce and considers the linguistic, temporal, societal, aspirational and
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Complex Project Management Governance
There has been an evolution occurring in projects and where once projects were difficult, but simple. They have now evolved to include a variety of different types of projects. As these new project types have emerged and increased in difficulty, complexity and value, it has become obvious that the current
Complex System Governance is an advanced systems approach that offers project practitioners new and novel insights to improve complex project performance, including: 1. Identification of 'deep system' failure modes for projects beyond traditional cost, schedule, and performance deficiencies 2. Examination of systems based failures in design, execution, or development of
Contestability across the Capability Life Cycle
This presentation covers the 10 years since the inception of ICCPM, and improvements in the delivery of complex projects. However, the role of contracts has been identified as contributing to the challenges of successfully delivering complex endeavours. Findings from a series of 'roundtable discussions' between ICCPM and IACCM members suggest
Is choosing an agile development methodology an invitation to anarchy? This session will canvass the options available to provide the 'gentle touch' needed to retain effective control whilst allowing the delivery team to be agile and creative. Agile is now a core component of the PMBOK® Guide and Practice Standard
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Controlling Projects Without a Critical Path
This webinar discusses developments in the control of projects that are not suited to traditional Critical Path scheduling (CMP). CPM assumes there is one right way to undertake the work of a project and this can be modelled in a CPM schedule. However, experience shows there are many types of
This presentation offers a comprehensive guide to cost assurance, highlighting the necessity of accurate cost and schedule estimates for successful project outcomes. It explores various estimating methods, the end-to-end cost estimating process, and the significance of data, assumptions, and risk analysis, providing essential knowledge for project managers at all levels.
This masterclass provides a comprehensive guide to cost assurance, moving beyond simple point estimates. It details a robust process for developing and evaluating probabilistic cost estimates, emphasizing the critical link between technical baselines, schedule, risk, and uncertainty. Learn best practices for data validation and creating credible, defensible estimates.
First Principles Review (FPR) (1 April 2015) highlighted improvements required in Defence on how costs are estimated, contested and managed. Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) in the setup of Functions established the Project Controls Directorate under Program Management Function to improve all the disciplines of project controls (cost, schedule
Being able to work efficiently with others is considered one of the critical skills demanded by project management employers once graduates enter the labour market. Assisting students to construct knowledge and skills with alternative viewpoints, improving communication skills and developing generic skills are some of the many reasons for including
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Why are large schedule delays, which seemingly too often come as "huge surprises" when reported, becoming a feature of major and mega projects? Is the critical path method failing us? Is agile development the solution, maybe hybrid, or what about critical chain as an alternative? The reality is that all
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence in the Project Space
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is certainly a popular topic for presentations and articles. Unfortunately, what is presented is often a big bang solution to a problem you may not even have. They often skip the initial steps in helping you understand the problem to solve, then how to prepare yourself and
The International Risk Management Standard ISO 31000 describes itself as a guide. Its application varies widely across organisations. This is to be expected when the context is substantially different (eg a compliance risk process will be different to one for projects). There is also the recent (version 2 Feb 2019)
Modular analysis is a mean to manage complexity in system design processes in order to achieve competitive advantage. It identifies highly interactive groups of components and/or functions which can potentially form good modules. Among various modular analysis approaches, Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method has proved to be an efficient matrix-based
Defence has a Force Design function, which, in the centralised strategic centre, is responsible for force structure assessments and force design decisions. Force Design has institutionalised a Defence Capability Assessment Program (DCAP), a process which kicks off by understanding changes to the strategic environment; qualifying and prioritising risks; developing capability