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.

I was asked a question in an online survey today that got me intrigued as to why it took the approach it did.

Here is the question......

In your opinion, what is the most important aspect to project management - scope, schedule, cost, quality or communication?

The other issue I have with project management in general is that there is no universal model that incorporates different ways of doing things depending on the situation.

For example, at a macro level, there is an inability for PMBOK and PRINCE2 to accommodate the agile methods. To me this means that the good points from the agile methods are not necessarily easily slotted into a non-software project. Indeed, the reverse can be true too.

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.