The outstanding success of the 2015 Project Governance and Controls Symposium (PGCS), held in Canberra last week, builds on 25 years of similar events and has been the subject of a news story posted on the APM website (UK) about Steve Wake’s travels to Australia and his presentation at the PGCS: https://www.apm.org.uk/news/apm-chairman-highlights-contribution-project-controls-global-scale
L to R: Kym Henderson (PGCS), Yvonne Butler (AIPM), Steve Wake (APM) and Pat Weaver (Mosaic)
The PGCS is designed to make the connection between organisational governance and project controls. Project controls cannot operate effectively without the protection of senior management. Frank and fearless reporting of status and issues cannot be assumed if the middle levels of management have the capability to restrict negative information. Conversely, executive management decisions depend on accurate and realistic assessments of risk, schedule and cost. Creating a culture where this type of information is not only available but accepted and used properly is the key governance issue within the project, program and portfolio domain.
To facilitate this objective, the PGCS invites prominent international and Australian speakers to its annual conference, and then works to build connections and make the knowledge available through both personal contacts and the resources section of the www.pgcs.org.au website which now has all of this years presentations uploaded.
You may have missed the Symposium, but you, and everyone on the project controls and governance communities are invited to make use of this resource, join in the conversation, and start planning for the 2016 Symposium, scheduled for the 11th and 12th May 2016.
Pat Weaver
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