Understanding the Complexity of Program Management
Using a Business Network Analysis (BNA) approach and real data from over 150 projects, see how the complexity of a program can be diagnostically analysed to understand the alignment of outcomes, requirements consistency, the stakeholder weave and interactions along with many other issues.
A program by its nature is complex, complicated and involved. This presentation will illustrate the fundamentals of a program approach that simplifies the natural complexity of a program and clearly illustrates the connections between the factors that influence “program” decisions.
About the speakers:
Pat Byrne
Prior to establishing HolisTech® Pty Ltd in 1998 and later Padden Industries Pty Ltd (a private investment company), Pat spent twenty years (and 3 days) in the Australian Regular Army serving in a variety of locations, utilising different skills and performing a wide range of tasks. These tasks included: project management, requirements analysis, strategic capability analysis, process analysis and management, implementing management efficiencies, liaison, general management, contract development and management, human resource management, leadership, administration, operations officer and platoon commander.
Work with HolisTech® has added considerably to that experience where Pat now advises on holistic solutions to business problems for product and capability focussed organisations, services numerous consultancy contracts with government and private organisations, develops innovative Web 2-0 applications and services, and together with Graham, is expanding HolisTech® into niche markets.
Among other qualifications Pat has a Master of Technology Management, a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Managerial Economics), and a Diploma of Personnel and Resource Management. Pat has been an economics tutor and systems engineering/project management guest lecturer at undergraduate and graduate level. He is currently studying towards his Doctorate in Project Management (DPM) at the RMIT University .
Pat is the Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of three companies, a member of the Project Management Institute , the Australian Institute of Management and the Systems Engineering Society of Australia .
Graham Durant-Law
Graham is an experienced senior executive with considerable expertise in knowledge systems design, business network analysis, knowledge management theory and practice, health services management, workforce planning, and change management. He also has substantial experience as an adult trainer, having held senior instructional appointments in Australia, the USA and Canada.
Graham is researching part-time his PhD in knowledge management on the topic of 'Mapping Social Connectivity and Artefact Relationships to Improve Knowledge Productivity in a Complex Project-Focused Organisation' at the University of Canberra . Among other qualifications Graham has a Master of Health Administration, a Master of Knowledge Management, and a Bachelor of Science majoring in psychology.
Graham is also the immediate past Administrative Director of the ACT Drug and Alcohol Foundation , and has worked in aid settings in countries as diverse as Rwanda, Bougainville and East Timor. He has a passionate interest in Celtic music and enjoys playing bagpipes, having won titles at the state and national level, both as a soloist and as a band member. He shares with his wife an interest in fine food and wine.