Australia's Failing Defence Structure and Management Methodology

If this isn't part of your annual recurrent training, it should be.

The root cause for this situation may be traced to the abandonment, over the period 1998 to 2001, of the successful project and engineering based management systems, skills and competencies that had been built up within the three Service Departments over decades of experience, coupled with the introduction of 'commercial' approaches controlled by generalist managers and often legal professionals. At the same time, Project Management Boards were replaced by Project Governance Boards - bodies that also lacked critical project and engineering skills and competencies - resulting in internal governance systems that have not only proven to be ineffective, but are compounding problems and failures.

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