Communication theory 101

The science and art of communication is based in theory. We have published a number of white papers on different aspects of communication over the last couple of years and have just uploaded a paper the focuses on core communication theory and provides contextual links to the earlier white papers focused on specific aspects of communication. To read more, download the white paper.

ISO 21500 Guide to Project Management

The Draft International Standard (DIS) of ISO 21500 has been released for comment. The Australian committee MB12 is seeking input from Australian project management professionals to help formulate the Australian response to the international committee.

Information on how to sign up for this review or to simply track progress through to the final publication, the Australian committee has launched a web site at http://www.mb12.org.au/. Mosaic will be continuing to support the development of this standard through to publication.

Readers of this post from other nations should contact their national standards authority if they wish to comment.

PMOZ 2011

The PMOZ conference is one of the best regional project management conferences world-wide and has a reputation for combining fun, networking and high quality learning into one event. The 2011 conference theme Project Management at the Speed of Light has attracted a wide range of interesting speakers from around the world.

Our involvement in the conference includes my keynote presentation Motivate your manager plus Patrick’s half day scheduling workshop and his paper Time management -v- Contract administration.

It’s not too late to join us for a great event, for more information download the Registration Brochure.

Assessing Delay and Disruption

In preparation for the IAMA National conference later this week I have just finished developing and updating a short series of papers focused on addressing schedule delay and disruption.

• Assessing Delay and Disruption – an overview of the accepted methods of forensic schedule analysis [ view the paper ]
• Prolongation, Disruption and Acceleration Costs – an overview of the options for calculating costs associated with approved delays and acceleration [ view the paper ]
• The complexities around concurrent and parallel delays are discussed on Mosaic’s White Paper WP1064 Concurrent and Parallel Delays

Any comments are welcome.