Patrick Weaver
Melbourne, Australia
Managing Director
Mosaic Project Services
Melbourne, Australia
Patrick Weaver, PMP, PMI-SP, FAICD, FCIOB, is the Managing Director of Mosaic Project Services Pty Ltd, an Australian project management consultancy specialising in project control systems and a PMI Registered Education Provider. Patrick is also the business manager of Stakeholder Management Pty Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, Australasia (FCIOB) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD). He is a member of the PMI College of Scheduling, and the PMI Melbourne Chapter (Australia), as well a full member of AIPM, APM (UK) and the College of Performance Management. Patrick has over 35 years experience in Project Management. His career was initially focused on the planning and managing of construction, engineering and infrastructure projects in the UK and Australia. The last 25 years has seen his businesses and experience expand to include the successful delivery of project scheduling services and PMOs in a range of government, ICT and business environments; with a strong focus on project management training. His consultancy work encompasses: developing and advising on project schedules, developing and presenting PM training courses, managing the development of internal project control systems for client organisations, and assisting with dispute resolution and claims management. He is a qualified Arbitrator. In the last few years, Patrick has sought to ‘give back’ to the industry he has participated in since leaving college through contributions to the development of the project management profession. In addition to his committee roles he has presented papers at a wide range of project management conferences in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia, has an on-going role with the PMOZ conference in Australia and is part of the Australian delegation to ISO TC258. Patrick can be contacted at patw@mosaicprojects.com.au or at www.mosaicprojects.com.au.
Articles and Papers
- Project Controls 3.0 - Featured Paper - Weaver - June 2024
- Assessing Delays in Agile & Distributed Projects - Featured Paper - Weaver - April 2024
- Calculating Completion - Featured Paper - Weaver - July 2023
- Predicting Completion in Agile & Distributed Projects - Featured Paper - Weaver - June 2023
- Do 80% of organizations average a project failure rate of 80%? - Commentary - Weaver - May 2023
- Assessing Delay – the SCL Options - Featured Paper - Weaver - April 2023
- Earned Schedule – the First 20 Years - Featured Paper - Weaver - March 2023
- Scheduling Challenges in Agile & Distributed Projects - Featured Paper - Weaver - February 2023
- Project Management – A Historical Timeline - Featured Paper - Weaver - January 2023
- The evolution of project management - Featured Paper - Weaver - November 2022
- On the History of Earned Value Management - Letter to the Editor - Weaver - October 2022
- The Origins and History of Earned Value Management - Featured Paper - Weaver - August 2022
- Cost Overruns on Early Canal & Railway Projects - Featured Paper - Weaver - May 2022
- The Origins and History of Cost Engineering - Featured Paper - Weaver - March 2022
- The Origins of WBS & Management Charts - Featured Paper - Weaver - December 2021
- On the History of Earned Value Management - Letter to the Editor - Weaver - October 2019
- On the Subject of Project Governance - Letter to the Editor - Weaver - September 2017
- Some deficiencies in published causes of project failures - Letter to the Editor - Weaver - February 2015
- The Origins of Hammocks and Ladders - Featured Papers - Weaver - October 2014
- A Brief History of Scheduling - Second Editions - Weaver - August 2014
- The Origins of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Calendar - Featured Papers - Weaver - July 2014
- On the subject of Dynamic Scheduling - Letter to the Editor - Weaver - May 2014
- Project Governance and Control: The Building of the Crystal Palace - Featured Papers - Weaver - May 2014
- The Origins of Bar Charting - Featured Papers - Weaver - April 2014
- On Managing Stakeholders - Letter to the Editor - Weaver - December 2013
- Where did the misuse of the names GANTT and PERT originate? - Commentaries - Weaver - April 2013
- Henry A. Gantt, 1861-1919: Debunking the myths, a retrospective view of his work - Featured Papers - Weaver - December 2012