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"All new ideas go through three phases. Firstly they are ridiculed. Next they are violently opposed.
Lastly they are accepted as obvious"
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The Purpose behind PM-Now
The Principles behind the conception of the Internet was a way to share open source code and knowledge. We think this was an admirable goal however this somewhat seems to be overwhelmed now with the need for people to make money.
This site is not an attempt to start a New Organisation or to solicit any new work, as we never seem to be in shortage of great opportunities to put into practice our Project Management knowledge and skills.
How can we overcome our fears of sharing knowledge? As a "Profession", how can we improve without passing the knowledge to those that follow and look into the future for things we need to change? Mentoring can be done in many ways, this could be one of them.
To improve our Community, has benefits. With openess, experience and understanding, comes a better environment, common goals and shared rewards. Collaboration and Communication, what powerful tools! It's your choice to get involved or just wait for another year to the next Conference.
We have provided a tool to keep the Conference going, one that never sleeps (24/7), but as you know it's not the tools that makes the difference, It's takes people to make change and get passionate.
We're Excited, Are You? We love being involved with Projects, Do You? If not, Why?
If your a first time user of this type of system and would like any assistance, please contact Scott at Deploy
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How's does PM-Now Work?
If you have visited this site more than once you will have noticed that things keep changing. Considering that this community site is for PM's, we didn't think that this would be a major issue, as change is what we are all about.
As you are aware, it's early days yet and during the concept phase we have not provided any guidance as to how it all works, due to the changes of the structure to this site. Now that this phase is nearing an end, we will be developing a "how to" guide. This guide will be a detailed structural background of the site and how to use it.
In broad terms, PM-Now is broken into several sections. Links to all the sections of interest can be found on the PM-Central Tab. The current section listed are; Topics of Interest, Organisational and Knowledge Areas. Each section is then broken down into Categories specific to that Section.
Each category level then has a main site called K-Base. This page provides the base for linking you to any area of knowledge that is currently available on PM-Now for your chosen relevant subject.
K-Base has 2 sub sites, one being Let's Talk and the other Let's Blog. The overall purpose for the 2 sites is the same. They are both area's that allow collaboration and discussion about the categories they fall under.
The Let's Talk site provides discussion forums (The Issues and The Opportunities) that start with a single comment or question and can grow into multiple debates about a raft of issues or even a means for mentoring others in the community.
The Let's Blog site is a little bit more structured, and by that we mean each posting is about a specific subject. The subject is provided in Peer Papers, which are provided by any Author and contain their thoughts about what they consider to be relevant for the community.
Please don’t be too critical given where PM-Now is at the moment, as this project is for love and it is a major undertaking to get everything in place.
Please keep coming back and you will see the growth in what we are hoping will be a very short time.
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PM-Now Let's Talk the First Comments
Who would of thought after sending 150 emails to Australian PM’s that the first comment on PM-Now an Australian Site would be posted by a PM from Peru.
Thanks to the early starters for getting the ball rolling...............................O
Jose Machicao, PMP, JCMV Consulting for getting involved in the discussion, Let's Talk The Model and the ISO Standards (PMBok)
...........and the silver medal goes to Australia (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie and you know the rest)
Gary Brown, Project Management for contributing your views in the discussion, Let's Talk Time about the issue, What good is a project schedule?
...........and speaking of the opportunities for Professionals in the Sun, why not think about Saudi Arabia?
Eng. Hashim Thallab, President & CEO, Project Management Pioneers Ltd (PMP). is looking for some help. | | Created: 25/09/2008 6:57 PM | | |
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PM-Now Let's Blog First Peer Paper's
A lack of content does exist currently on PM-Now however every Blog and discussion forum site must also have started the same way.
We can choose to focus on the negatives, or we can rejoice on the positives. Let's look at the later.
PM-Now wishes to thank the following Authors for Getting Involved. Their efforts and involvement is appreciated.
Professor Dr David. Dombkins, Chairman, Complex Program Institute for his Peer Paper, Human Capital for Complexity. This paper is due to be publised in the US later on in the year.
Adrian Morey, Arup Project Management for his Peer Paper, Creating a New Model for Public / Private Partnership. This Paper was presented at the PMoz 2008 Conference held in Melbourne, Australia.
Martin Vaughan, Core Consulting Group for his Presentation, Bridging the Skills Gap. This was a Case Study also presented at the PMoz 2008 Conference held in Melbourne, Australia.
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PM-Now Thankyou
PM-Now wishes to thank PMI Consulting SIG and the WA Chapter for recently highlighting this Website in their publications.
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Make Change Happen
PM-Now advocates change but we do sleep between the hours of 4 am and 5 am so Stay Tuned, we are implementing the content on this Site as fast as is possible.
Please Get Involved with what Pm-Now already has to offer
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PM-Now - PM-Partners To Be Added
This New Section will have site such as
PM-Government
PM-Legal
PM-Account
PM-Associations
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Let's Talk Policy
PM-Now would like to welcome all the PM Community to these Discussion Sites.
This is an open forum and as such, no restrictions have been incorporated into the user interface for placing comments.
With our trust comes certain responsibilities which we hope will be treated in the spirit it is offered. PM-Now will not filter comments or responses unless they breach Standard Internet Policy.
Please complete each comment you leave with your name identified and a comment that can assist us all grow as a Community.
Any content contained on this site has been supplied by others. PM-Now offers no guarantee as to the correctness, validity or accuracy of such content and the source thereof. Standard internet policies apply to this site with respect to Codes of Conduct, Privacy and anything else you can think of.
If you would like to let us know any improvements that may assist everyones experience on this site, please contact PM-Now and we will see if we can incorporate any such changes into this site.
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Let's Blog Policy
PM-Now would like to welcome all the PM Community to all Blog Sites.
This is an open forum and as such, no restrictions have been incorporated into the user interface for placing comments.
With our trust comes certain responsibilities which we hope will be treated in the spirit it is offered.
Please remember that all the contributors to this area of PM-Now has spent many hours developing and recording their thoughts down on paper and have kindly supplied them for comment within our Community.
Please complete each comment you leave with your name identified and a comment that can assist us all grow as a Community.
Any content contained on this site has been supplied by others. PM-Now offers no guarantee as to the correctness, validity or accuracy of such content and the source thereof. Standard internet policies apply to this site with respect to Codes of Conduct, Privacy and anything else you can think of.
If you would like to let us know any improvements that may assist everyones experience on this site, please contact PM-Now and we will see if we can incorporate any such changes into this site.
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Public Private Partnerships
Australian Constructors Association
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This 24 page booklet is available online or you may request free printed copies. Online you have two options to view: Click here to Download | | |
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State of Play
Australian Constructors Association
The Australian Construction Industry
in November 2008
The global economic and financial crisis has brought an end to a period of sustained strong expansion in the construction sector. While demand for mining and engineering projects will continue to remain strong, the remainder of the construction sector is experiencing significantly weaker conditions.
There is a range of other issues also impacting on the industry, including labour and capital supply constraints
and high costs, which constitute a significant risk to the growth and development of individual firms and the industry as a whole.
This report updates the current state of the Australian construction industry, and provides insights into the major issues and challenges confronting construction firms. Click here to Download from ACA | | |
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Engineering and Commercial Construction
to Weaken further through to 2010
Australian Constructors Association
Construction Outlook Report May 2009
Following a sustained period of solid growth, Australia’s leading
construction companies are forecasting a marked slowdown in the rate of activity growth through 2009, followed by a decline in 2010.
KEY FINDINGS
- The latest Australian Industry Group/Australian Constructors Association Construction Outlook survey reveals that after rising by 9.9% in 2008 (current prices), the value of engineering and commercial construction work is forecast to moderate sharply to
a 2.3% growth rate in 2009. Thereafter, a fall of 2.4% is expected in 2010 driven by a reduction in heavy investment in the resources sector, declines in mining related infrastructure projects, and weaker private sector commercial building activity.
- Despite this, the total value of construction work done by the private sector is expected to remain at a high level overall, with a forecast value of $91.2 billion in 2010, to be 20.8% above the level of 2007, and to represent an almost four-fold increase on the previous low point of 2001.
- Within the engineering construction sector, the most marked contractions in activity in 2010 are forecast in mining projects, heavy industrial resource based projects, and “other” civil projects (including bridges, terminals and port facilities), reflecting the deferral and cancellation of projects and falling commodity prices. Engineering construction, is however, expected to gain support from continued growth in the oil and gas sector, transport infrastructure, electricity generation and supply and sewerage and water supply projects.
- Reflecting tight credit conditions and weak investor sentiment across the property market, private sector commercial construction is predicted to contract in 2009 and 2010 by 5.1% and 15.4% respectively. This decline, however, is expected to be cushioned by growth in public sector non-residential building activity, mainly reflecting continued increases in health and education sector construction and redevelopments.
OUTLOOK 2009
Following a strong period of growth since 2001, the rate of increase in construction revenue is forecast to decelerate to 2.3% in 2009.
- Underlying this weakening outlook, the infrastructure market is forecast to register growth of 3.3% in 2009 after expanding by 19.0% in 2008, with declines in “other” civil projects (-13.2%) and pipelines (-2.7%) constituting the major negative influences. A slower rate of growth in revenue is expected to be generated from roads (8.6%), rail (13.2%), electricity generation and supply (1.9%), sewerage and water supply projects (3.7%) and telecommunications (1.0%).
- Reflecting sharp falls in commodity prices and weakening minerals demand, the mining sector is forecast to rise at a slower rate of 1.7%, following average annual growth of 21.3% over the previous three years.
- Within the heavy industrial construction market, growth is expected to be mainly centered on the oil and gas processing sector (9.4%) in line with the substantial number of large projects in the pipeline.
- Non-residential building (commercial construction) is expected to post marginal growth of 1.3%, due to the negative impact of a forecast 5.1% fall in private building activity, which contrasts with a 16.2% rise in public sector building.
View the full Report: October 2008.pdf or October 2008.zip
WHAT IS THE CONSTRUCTION OUTLOOK REPORT?
The Australian Industry Group survey was conducted in March/
April 2009 in association with the Australian Constructors
Association, the peak industry body representing the nation’s
major construction contractors. The survey covered the responses of 100 companies employing almost 77,000 persons with combined turnover of almost $27 billion or approximately 30% of total industry activity.
This survey provides an estimate of the dollar value of turnover in 2010 for the engineering and non-residential building industry. This estimate has been derived by applying the survey forecasts (2009 and 2010 % changes) to Australian
Bureau of Statistics Value of Work Done – Australia (original
series data). The estimate of the total value of construction by the private sector excludes the value of overseas business. This estimate may include a small proportion of work undertaken by the public sector.
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