Ithuta JV

It has become clear to me that Project Management in the "brick and mortar" game [Construction of large Infrastructure related projects such as buildings, dams, bridges, roads etc..., or Minerals Extraction projects such as mines, processing plants, smelters etc...] has not got the monopoly on Project Management skills, methodologies or systems.

A number of new approaches, techniques, skills and systems can be found in the softer sciences or endeavours - such as those in HR, IT, NGO's Project Management. Techniques being used such as Agile Development, SCRUM and Timeboxing may well prove to be superior approaches than that used in traditional PMBok or PRINCE methodologies

I will be investigating these in more detail in 2010 - watch this space.

Len Pretorius