Friday, 19 March 2010 07:39
The role played by the media as a channel for project communication on public infrastructure projects
Multimillion-dollar projects are becoming more and more common in today’s increasingly complex world.
Public infrastructure projects such as the Gautrain Rapid Rail involve billions of rand spent over long periods of time to achieve critical economic and political objectives.
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 12:19
Exploring the role of the project managerProject, programme and portfolio management. People have been doing projects for ever. The purpose of this article is to explain – from a PMI perspective – the difference between these terms in detail and what standards exist to support best practice, with some real-life examples if possible.
Every person at some point will plan and execute projects. For most, the biggest projects they will handle may be their wedding, moving to a new house or country. Much of this is done intuitively and some will do it much better than others.
However, if you are going to build a pyramid, or the Colosseum, or a new model of passenger airplane such as the Airbus A380, then intuition is simply not enough to carry the project through – but it will still help.
