Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Program (HNRRP)
From 2009 to 2011, I was overall program manager of the award-winning Australian Government funded $77.4 million Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Programme in western Sydney, where I used agile management approaches to oversee six different NSW Government agencies implementing seven substantial and complex projects that carried out works on more than 1,000 properties.
The aim of the program was to make more water available for environmental flows and reduce the amount of nutrients entering the iconic Hawkesbury-Nepean river system.
Under my management, this nationally significant programme exceeded its objectives and was successfully completed on time and under budget in a little over two years, winning the Government award in the 2012 savewater! awards® and the Program Innovation Award at the 2012 Australian Water Association (AWA) NSW Branch Awards.
Testimonials for this work can be found on my project and program management page, and information on the agile approaches I used can be found in an article in RealKM Magazine.
The September 2011 edition of HNRRP e-news reflects on some of the major achievements from the seven HNRRP projects and celebrates the great work that has been done to improve the health of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment. Full details of the program and its achievements can be found in the Final Report.
