Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Program (HNRRP)
From 2009-11, I was overall Program Manager of the award-winning Australian Government funded $77.4 million Hawkesbury-Nepean River Recovery Program in western Sydney, where I used advanced risk management and 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.
Under my management, this nationally significant program 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 expertise page, and information on the advanced risk management and agile management approaches I used can be found in the following RealKM Magazine articles:
- KM in project-based & temporary organisations: Part 7 – The risk library approach and how it relates to the risk causation model.
- KM in project-based & temporary organisations: Part 8 – An agile approach to program management.
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. 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.
