Research Achievements
Our research, advocacy and development initiatives focus on understanding the key challenges faced by the project management industry.
We are committed to questioning the often entrenched assumptions about how the governance and delivery of strategically, economically and politically complex programs should work.
Research publications
The research projects listed below are currently in progress at the Institute or have been completed. Click on the links to download publicly available papers.
Project Complexity Framework |
Framework to measure and compare project complexity within and across organizations and industries. Download a copy. |
Complexity Assessment of Australia’s Defence Projects |
Assessment of the complexity of the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) procurement project portfolio and comparison with other industries. Download a copy. |
Complexity Assessment of Australia’s Defence Sustainment Operations |
Assessment of sustainment (maintaining the availability for deployment of Defence assets) complexity across the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO). Download a copy. |
National Competency Framework for Project Managers |
A joint initiative with the AIPM to review and upgrade the competency assessment framework for Project Managers |
National Competency Framework for Business Analysis |
Cross-industry initiative to build a Business Analysis competency assessment and certification framework, and delivery model. Refer to the AIBA website for more information. |
Whitepaper: Resolving Australia’s Project Resource Constraints |
Analysis of the project resourcing constraints in Australia and the opportunities for load balancing across industry sectors. Download a copy. |
Submission to the Mortimer Review |
Government Defence Procurement Review. Download a copy. |
Submission to the Gershon Review |
Government Review of IT Governance. Download a copy. |
Report: The Outlook for Capital Projects in Australia |
A forecast of capital project spend for 2007/08 by industry sector. Download a copy. |
Articles
Taking the Helm |
In business, realising great results often comes down to successfully managing projects. The importance of the current global research initiative is explained in the IBM general business magazine. Download a copy. |
Defence Management – Capital works: A lot of work to come |
Based on studies of a number of major project resets the Helmsman Institute believes that delivery of most major projects can be accelerated by 10-20 per cent, even in the face of apparent external resource constraints and even for well advanced in-flight projects. ADM Article Oct 08. |
Defence Business: Standing behind the budget |
ADM has the occasional guest column and this examination of defence project management from Bruce Ferguson of the Helmsman Institute for Project Governance is a look at the way defence does business from another perspective. ADM Article Jun 08 |
Preventing your projects from exploding |
Projects that explode are not just a little late or a little over cost, they are often very late and very over budget. Facility Management Association Online, April 2009 |
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