I have a number of skills in a number of areas and have a few topics around which I can talk for 40 mins or 1-2 days!! You may consider them to be a bit eclectic and not really connected .... but in fact they are all connected through my project management, business investment and general management experience. All of them are well grounded in my personal journey ....good and bad!

I am mostly engaged through my consultancy firm HolisTech® Pty Ltd or my investment firm Padden Industries Pty Ltd, but I do have relationships with companies and businesses big and small through which I sometimes sub-contract.

This adds to my entry on Project Interviews.

I wasn't going to use more than one set of meters or graphs for a project, but the field is so full of challenges and interesting nuances, that I couldn't resist. It may not be last one either.

So I have added a second page of meters for the interview making for eight in all.

I am about to start my interviews with project managers and hope to continue them for a long time and perhaps revisit the project over the period of its existence to see how it is progressing.

But before I start to blog the interviews, I need to set the scene because I ask them to complete a very short survey and to complete a "chart" of their project's "rhythm" over time and these need some explanation.

This is yet another article in The Australian newspaper on the problems and issues around the Federal Government's schools and education stimulus package. Assuming the facts are right, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, the waste is just incredible. Good on the parents and staff to say they will hand the money back as it is just replacing a perfectly functioning building with another building serving the same purpose....on top of all the disruption that it will cause.

This is where project management I believe has it slightly wrong. It is taught as a disjointed independent set of activities and products and not as a flow or mesh or weave of activities and products.

In this case if something is out of place it immediately becomes apparent because it can be "seen" or "heard" just as a wrong musical note in a melody can be heard to be incorrect as it disrupts the flow. Conversely, it is difficult to "hear" or "see" something out of place in hip=hop as there is no melody in which to gain that insight.

I am exploring a number of concepts under an eclectic collection of
subject areas. I am also exploring some of these in my blog about small
and medium enterprises and micro-businesses at Lukim All. Undoubtedly, I will add to these in time.

Formal. Pat is a very experienced program and project manager with a strong academic background in the profession which includes post graduate project management qualifications. He has a significant and current consulting and business background with a particular strength in communicating complex concepts in simple and pithy ways including discussions, presentations, blogs and papers.

Informal. I am the normal family man - wife and two daughters, two dogs (german shepherd and golden retriever - stupid and cupid as the kids call them!), a stack of frogs in the gardne and a visiting family of magpies (a native Australian bird that is quite at home in the urban environment).

I am undertaking a Doctorate in Project Management at the RMIT
University in Melbourne, Australia (although I won't start it again
until 2010).

What will my thesis be about? Well at this stage I am keen on pursuing
a theme around using what I call the Knowledge Level of Maturity (KLOM)
as it relates to project management.