Problematic Trends of Project Delivery in Australia

Question: Discuss about theProblematic Trends of Project Delivery in Australia. Answer: Introduction The project delivery is the method by which the production stakeholders decide the various aspect of the project regarding the finances, development, operation and upkeep of the project (Kovvuri et al. 2016). In the present scenario, the Australian market faces various challenges that affect the delivery of the project. This work aims to analyze the various reasons behind the problematic trend. Lack of Communication Communication is the process by which the interchange of information among the various people takes place. The importance of communication if fully recognized in the case of project implementation where the manage needs to dictate the specific goals that have been laid out by the client. If the manager fails to make the team understand the specific goals, the project is bound to fail in spite of the presence of the best workforce in the world (Hwang and Ng 2013). The outcome will fail to impress the clients. With the advent of industrialization, many machines were created that eased the life of people. The industrialization gave telephone which has made a long distance call reality. The present age digitization too serves the same purpose with much more security features added to them. The communication these days have been so fast that people around the world can be accessed within a second. But the advanced media has made the human lazier. As the presence at the location is not man datory for adding the value in the system, people avoid traveling, which not only reduces the valuable experience that could have been gained by physical presence but also reduces the strength of the bond between the stakeholders (Walker 2015). Hence these distancing bonds create misunderstanding leading to problems in a project. Lack of Specificity The lack of specificity can also be attributed to a communication gap between the stakeholders. Since the advanced communications forces us to think that the physical presence is not mandatory the minute details of the project is often missed creating the absence of specificity. Also, the huge industrialization has created a lot of machineries, and the theories that are behind the various streams of studies can be mastered by a single person (A. Makarova and Sokolova 2014). This vast knowledge that has been derived from the small knowledge pool just within two decades has created a talent pool that believes that specificity is not mandatory in a system. Thus the old engineers fail to realize the importance of the specific details of the system which land the project into trouble (Chen and Nakayama 2016). Hence the knowledge and the industry requirements should be simultaneously updated to create a system that understands the importance of details. Micromanaging the Projects The technologies have made the world very small. Due to this technological advancement, the working of the staffs can be monitored almost real time creating a system that is extremely tight thus totally reducing the chances of committing mistakes and reducing the experimentation (etindamar Phaal and Probert 2016). The newer manager with the advanced tools tends to be overly sensitive towards the mistakes and tend to behave like law enforcers in the company. Since the learning mechanism is hampered due to continuous monitoring of the process, it is highly suggested that the managers should decide an interval in which a specific target should be achieved (Ward and Peppard 2016). This should be done with great enthusiasm, and the failure should be treated in a proper way so that the workers are not too much pressed to produce work in a single go. Expecting Software to Solve all the Issues With the advent of the computer plethora of software are available to simulate the real time environment and to solve the real time issue. The software has been a boon to automate various aspect of the human actions. The software like MS Office totally automates the calculations and the tedious tasks that used to take a lot of human hours (Ahmed and Boutaba 2014). The other software that is available solves the other aspects of the human issues. But it should be understood that not all software are available for sorting out every problem encountered in real life. The software should be treated as a tool to simplify the actions not to totally resolve it. Since the present generation is extremely dependent upon the software, it has been found that this has led to unreal expectations that lead to setting up of unreal goals (Guess 2015). This can be seen as the negative impact of the technology on the human life. Budget In the above section, it has been presented that the technology creates an impression that every issue can be sorted out with the help of the technology, which makes the project look like a cake walk. The advanced machinery also contributes to the factor that makes people think that the automation can sort out every issue (Ojala 2013). Although the same may be true, the budgetary constraints make the project unreal. The budget allocation becomes a problem in almost all the project and often results in an overrun (Aurum et al. 2013). Hence it can be seen that average software that is being implemented in the country exceeds both the time limit and the estimated budget. Dependency Conflicts The advanced technologies have made the world smaller with the help of the various technologies like telephone, the internet, etc. the person of interest can be accessed crossing the physical boundaries that were one very difficult to cross (Garca-Mireles et al. 2013). This has resulted in collaboration between the experts who live in various continents. Since the physical presence is absent in these cases the scenario totally changes, the communication gap exists which leads to the development of the Unreal dependencies. The unreal dependencies lead to conflicts which create trouble for the project. Hence it should be understood that the assimilation should be treated as an option and not as the remedy to all the incidents. Clear Ideas about the limitation of technologies will also help in realizing the dependencies of the personnel thus leading to better management of the projects. References Makarova, E. and Sokolova, A., 2014. Foresight evaluation: lessons from project management.Foresight,16(1), pp.75-91. Ahmed, R. and Boutaba, R., 2014. Design considerations for managing wide area software defined networks.IEEE Communications Magazine,52(7), pp.116-123. Aurum, A., Jeffery, R., Wohlin, C. and Handzic, M. eds., 2013.Managing software engineering knowledge. 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