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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
Putting Guidance into Action
We need to continue to develop our infrastructure if we are to maintain economic growth and enhance services to our community. Governments accept that the private sector has a vital contribution to make, and view Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a policy and procurement tool to develop both social and economic infrastructure.
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 | | |
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Growth to Halve In Year Ahead for Construction
Australian Constructors Association
Construction Outlook Report October 2008
KEY FINDINGS
- Australia's leading construction companies are forecasting a significant slowing in growth through to 2009/10 as the global credit crunch starts to take its impact, and intense pressures continue to be experienced from capital supply constraints and skill shortage bottlenecks.
- The latest Australian Industry Group/Australian Constructors Association Construction Outlook survey reveals that following a rise of 12.7% in 2007/08, the total value of engineering and commercial construction work is forecast to increase at a slower rate of 9.1% in 2008/09 before easing further to a 6.7% pace in 2009/10. As the survey was conducted prior to the most recent severe deterioration in world financial markets it is likely that the overall growth outlook has since deteriorated.
- Engineering construction is forecast to underpin growth, with total turnover (by the private sector) predicted to rise by 12.6% in 2008/09 and by a further 7.7% in 2009/10 to a level of $60.4 billion.
- Key sectors that are expected to underpin engineering construction growth (particularly in 2008/09) include transport infrastructure, mining, telecommunications, sewerage and water supply, and "other" civil projects (including the construction and upgrading of freight and port facilities). Solid growth is also forecast in the value of work generated from oil and gas projects, although this sector constitutes a lower share of the total revenue of all respondents.
- While non-residential building (commercial construction) is forecast to build on its current high base to generate $34.5 billion of work in 2009/10, the pace of growth is expected to moderate to 5.6% in 2008/09 and 4.2% in 2009/10, reflecting the impact of the credit crunch and weaker sentiment across the property sector.
- Apartment building sector work is forecast to record a third successive year of decline, with the value of work falling by 15.9% in 2008/09, before recovering some ground with an 11.2% rise forecast in 2009/10.
OUTLOOK 2008/2009
- Following an increase of 12.7% in 2007/008, turnover from construction work is forecast to register slower growth of 9.1% in 2008/09, with mining and infrastructure remaining the key drivers of growth.
- Expansion of the infrastructure market is forecast to be led by continued growth in road projects (15.5%) from a high base, and other civil projects (20.3%). This is expected to be mainly supported by continued increases in work generated from telecommunications (11.0%) water supply (8.3%) & electricity generation (7.1%) projects.
- The mining sector is forecast to grow by a robust 17.4% in 2008/09, following average annual growth of 16% in the previous two years.
- Oil and gas projects (16.2%) continue to have the strongest growth outlook within the heavy industrial construction market, consistent with strong global demands for LNG and the high number of large projects either underway or set to come on stream.
- Commercial construction is forecast to register its seventh consecutive year of expansion in 2008/09, although the rate of growth is expected to moderate to 5.6% through the year.
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 September/ October 2008 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 49,000 persons with combined turnover of almost $20 billion or approximately 25% of total industry activity.
The survey provides estimates of the dollar value of turnover in 2009/10 for the engineering and non-residential building sectors. These estimates have been derived by applying the survey forecasts (2008/09 and 2009/10 % 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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