The 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup – a mega project model

This article seeks to draw on the major management disciplines of project, operations, programme and strategic management to develop an integrated conceptual management model for planning and integrating mega projects; and is then evaluated against Western Cape-based planning and management activities of hosting the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup.

Has South Africa overinvested in the 2010 Fifa
Soccer World Cup at the cost of a post-2010 vision?

M inister in the Presidency: National Planning, Trevor Manuel, recently set the cat among the pigeons when he warned that the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup-related infrastructure and construction projects were nearing completion and that South Africa urgently needed to identify new projects.

Elmar Roberg takes a close-up view of change management

If project management – or the management of change – is not a completely different type of management, it should be.

Seven fallacies that delay project management maturity

All too often, companies embark upon a journey to implement project management only to discover that the path they thought was clear and straightforward is actually filled with obstacles and fallacies. Without sufficient understanding of the looming roadblocks and how to overcome them, an organisation may never reach a high level of project management maturity. Its competitors, on the other hand, may require only a few years to implement an organisation-wide strategy that predictably and consistently delivers successful projects.