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What is Knowing Projects

Welcome to "Knowing Projects" aka www.patbyrne.biz.

This is my place to explore concepts in project management and lots of related areas. 

It is a work in progress, so please forgive me for some of the small ongoing changes.

It is a large and relatively eclectic subject area, but I will slowly build the site to hopefully illustrate their relationships. I also want to "explain" concepts and how things might be done in certain contexts.

In short, I believe there is a lot of room to improve on some of the elements of project management and to improve on how these are "explained".  This is where my Project Knowledge Model (PKM) comes into it.  I hope to expose much of the PKM in my blog and other writings.  I am also hopeful it will be of some value to you, the reader.  I look forward to conversing with you so that we can all get to know projects better

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Latest Blog Entries

The Project Management Advisor

Book - The Project Management AdvisorPacelli, L., The Project Management Advisor. 18 Major Project Screw Ups, and How to Cut Them Off at the Pass, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ, USA, 2004

I bought this book off the web and I couldn't "look inside" so I didn't really know what I was getting. I was surprised to see it was a fairly small book in terms of pages. But the size belies its value I suspect.

Lonnie Pacelli has put together a tight little package of wisdom, based it would seem on many of his experiences at Accenture and later Microsoft Corporation. He has 18 "screw ups" to share. ....read more

A Defence Capability Framework (06) – Looking Vertically

In this blog, I wish to illustrate the vertical dimensions in the broad architecture I have been explaining in the last five blogs on a Defence Capability Framework - (01) to (05). Why is this "vertical" dimension so important? Well, if you are able to navigate or trace up and down within the same dimension (requirement, solution or process), then you get a very real insight into the whole "architecture" of the organisation, in this case the Australian Department of Defence. ....read more

Small Business in Australia

Along with Donna Cox of Mantra Training and Development, I attended the Canberra Business Council (CBC) (of which HolisTech® is a Corporate Member) and Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) luncheon. Apart from doing a little networking (not that I am good at that), we listened to an interesting presentation by Dr Michael Schaper, the Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). It was titled Small Business - Future Opportunities & Challenges....read more

A Defence Capability Framework (05) - System

It has been a while since I blogged. I have been a bit busy with a few things, among them a proposal for one of our other business interests - Mantra Training and Development - a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). So, just to provide a little context, this blog is a continuation of the "Defence Capability Framework" series. The last two were on the Operational level and the Strategic level. This one has a focus on the System level within the Australian Defence context.  ....read more

Cirque du Soleil – Dralion

Canberra is a small city of some 300,000+ without a significant performance venue, apart from outdoor venues including the football stadium (Canberra Stadium). So because it is so small and because we have limited venues, we often miss out on the big entertainment tours. I am pleased to say though that Cirque du Soleil is currently in Canberra in their Big Top on the side of Lake Burley Griffin near the National Library of Australia and Questacon (Australia's National Science & Technology Centre).

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Welcome to Knowing Projects

A Place to Explore Project Management Concepts