Past Events – John Grill Institute for Project Leadership Past Events – John Grill Institute for Project Leadership

Round Table: Pre-Award Schedule Management

Questions considered during the Round Table discussions included: In an environment where pre-award client schedules are not developed to the required detailed level, how do you go about resource allocation at the portfolio level? At the portfolio level, how do you adjust your project pipeline to account for the market’s capacity to respond to your ...

Round Table: The Balance Between Configuration Management and Project Controls

Questions considered during the Round Table discussions included: Project control functions and configuration management work on different time scales. From a project controls perspective, there is a need to establish a baseline for business case approvals, while configuration changes can occur throughout detailed planning and delivery. What are the tensions created by these different interests? ...

Dale Evans – Projects as Enterprises: Project 13 ​

School of Project Management Level 2, 21 Ross Street, Forest Lodge, Sydney, NSW

Dale Evans: He has over 30 years of international experience in infrastructure delivery, asset management, operational management and change management within the infrastructure and construction sectors.As Chair of Project 13; A New Delivery Model for Infrastructure and Chair of the Infrastructure Client Group (ICG) has led the development of a progressive industry strategy and work ...

Projects as Interventions in Infrastructure Systems

Online

There is significant work being done at national and international level to transform the way decisions are made about the built environment. This requires different understanding from owners, sponsors and government, and from professionals involved in project conception, set-up, design, delivery and hand-over into operations. The challenge is now to implement this policy, to transform ...

Marina Van Der Walt: Trends and Insights and Associated Reforms for NSW Infrastructure Projects

School of Project Management Level 2, 21 Ross Street, Forest Lodge, Sydney, NSW

Speaker: Marina Van Der Walt Marina is the Head of Assurance at Infrastructure NSW. Marina joined the agency in 2017. With over $112 billion in infrastructure to deliver in NSW over the next four years, Marina leads the Investor Assurance team to ensure major capital projects are delivered in a timely and cost-efficient way through ...

Project Leadership in a Changing World Symposium

Online

The series of International Symposia are designed to share the latest thinking on project leadership across an international research, policy and practice community. The main audience for this online symposium is our international peers; a secondary audience is the international professional bodies and key client organisations. One outcome should also be to identify and set ...

Project Leadership in a Changing World Symposium

Online

The series of International Symposia are designed to share the latest thinking on project leadership across an international research, policy and practice community. The main audience for this online symposium is our international peers; a secondary audience is the international professional bodies and key client organisations. One outcome should also be to identify and set ...

Mark Dodgson AO: Innovation in Professional Services Firms

Business School, University of Sydney ABS Case Study Lecture Theatre 2090 H70.02.2090 University of Sydney Business School Darlington Campus, Sydney, NSW

Mark Dodgson is currently Executive-in-Residence, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor, Imperial College London; Broman Scholar, University of Gothenburg; and Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland. He has written or edited 19 books and 100+ articles on innovation, and studied and taught innovation in over 60 countries. He has advised numerous governments around the world and has been ...

Tim Broyd: Innovation and the search for low carbon buildings and infrastructure

Business School, University of Sydney ABS Case Study Lecture Theatre 2090 H70.02.2090 University of Sydney Business School Darlington Campus, Sydney, NSW

The construction industry has a bad reputation for failing to meet traditional targets of quality, cost and time, and also for lack of innovation in processes, methods and materials. The reality is not quite so bleak, but it is certainly the case that there is little formal research. And yet we are now facing the greatest challenge the industry has ever had to meet, that of climate change.

Martina Huemann: The power of projects to create a better future

School of Project Management Level 2, 21 Ross Street, Forest Lodge, Sydney, NSW

Projects possess an inherent creation power. They enable us to establish new hospitals or schools, build or rebuild all kinds of infrastructure and organize for sustainable transformation. Especially Mega Projects are forces of societal change and support us in turning ideas into life. The presentation discusses challenges and opportunities of delivering infrastructure and offers stakeholder-orientation as an essential principle in contemporary Project Management.