After returning to resource construction management from oil and gas projects, we realised there is a huge gap between where planning on resource projects currently is, and where it should be.

Your company is leaving percentages of profit on the table due to the high demand for project work and a limited amount of tier 1 experienced people to execute them — this is the gap we fill.

Smaller companies usually don't have the ability, time, or resources to run a proper PMO. Or they do have one, but it's underperforming. Some of these businesses have people with Tier 1 backgrounds, but not everyone does — and if you haven't worked in that environment, you've never seen what actually separates Tier 1 project management from the rest.

When project control processes aren't properly established, the duties on smaller projects usually fall to a junior team member to manage. This is where the trouble starts — because it's here that the project's most valuable resource, its data, begins to fail.

Systems are only as good as the people maintaining them

Data quality can only ever be as good as the least experienced person maintaining it. And those people rarely get the training or attention they need — because senior site leadership doesn't have the time to work with them, or isn't capable of teaching those skills in the first place.

In a busy project environment, high performers can't lift everyone else's level up. They don't have the spare capacity to sit with underperforming team members and walk them through what they don't understand. Being a high performer doesn't automatically make someone a good teacher.

Raise your lowest performers

So, the best way to lift your whole company's project performance is to raise your lowest performers. Spend time with them, instruct them, build a strong base — then build from there.

Even someone who's never going to be a star performer can be raised. And the odds are that the 80/20 rule applies to your team — roughly 20% of your people do 80% of the work. If you can get that other 80% of the team to even half the proficiency of your top 20%, that's a massive shift in profit for your business.

It comes down to a series of steps: make all your project information available, make it communicable and accessible, train people on how to use it, then implement, monitor, control, and improve incrementally.

It won't fix itself

If the schedule is behind and the projects over budget, the odds are that without intervention, it won't fix itself — it will keep trending downward. At best you want to hold where you are; ideally, you improve your schedule and cost performance from here.

The current site team has proven they can't turn it around on its own. The project needs intervention.

That's where we come in

We set your project up to stop getting worse, and more often than not, get it moving in the right direction from there. It's tried and tested processes and procedures from Tier 1 companies — most people just don't know about them, don't prioritize them, or don't have the time to implement them. We do. That's what we do.

We bring in a team — the size depends on the size of the project — rebuild your project controls from the ground up, train the team on how to run a project the most efficient way, and work with your leadership team to help them lead and set you on your way.

We can also run the job, but that's not the goal. The goal is to fix broken jobs, because there are a lot of projects out there that need help — and a lot of value being left on the table in the process.

Australia is an unproductive country, and we need to lift that. Let's start with your project. Let's work together. Let's make projects better.