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Awards Program - PMAA
The Australian Institute of Project Management has established the Project Management Achievement Awards (PMAA) to recognise, honour and promote outstanding achievements in program and project management. In the context of the PMAA, program, project and portfolio management are considered synonymous.
Any project with an Australian affiliation is eligible to enter the PMAA. A winning project will be one that demonstrates by documentary evidence, innovation and/or excellence in the application of project management. Projects may be of any size or dollar value and from either the public or private sectors. The project itself can be located anywhere in the world.
The project must have an approved project plan and budget. The project must be completed within the last 12 months or be a recently completed discrete part of a larger program or project. In either case, acceptance of the project or discrete part by the client/owner prior to submission is mandatory.
2009 PMAA Events
The PMAA program has two levels:
There are two classifications of awards:
The guidelines are in three parts:
Each of these classifications encompasses a number of project categories. Project categories
There are ten categories for submission, these are:
Category 1: Construction / Engineering Construction/engineering projects such as buildings, utilities, and infrastructure having a total project budget of <$100,000,000.
Category 1A: Construction / Engineering Construction/engineering projects such as buildings, utilities, and infrastructure having a total project budget in excess of $100,000,000.
Category 2: Defence / Aerospace Defence / aerospace projects.
Category 3: Product Development Product development projects such as vehicles, production line products and manufactured items. They normally involve project management of the innovation, development and production or manufacture of a new product.
Category 4: Information Technology
Information technology projects that normally involve project management of software development and/or hardware upgrades in the information technology sector or technology component of any business.
Category 5: Organisation / Change Management Research, development and organisational change and management projects. They normally involve business initiative projects and/or the project management of organisational change.
Category 6: Small Projects Small scale projects from any industry with a total project budget of less than $1,000,000, undertaken in any field.
Category 7: Regional Development Projects undertaken outside of major metropolitan areas. These projects must demonstrate that value was added to the regional area. Value may be achieved in many ways such as increased employment opportunities, technology, economic development, infrastructure improvements or health or education services.
Category 8: Community Service and/or Development Community, cultural or volunteer-based projects as well as projects that are conducted by or underpin/promote the education, development, preservation and well being of indigenous, disadvantaged, disabled groups or the volunteer / not for profit sector.
Category 9: Sustainable Projects Projects that demonstrated excellence in delivering sustainable outcomes from the social, financial and environmental (triple bottom line) viewpoints and/or projects that have embedded sustainability principles and practices into their project execution processes and organisational culture.
Each State and Territory will have a panel of judges selected from a broad range of industry groups and will collectively, have a broad range of experience in project management. A national judging panel will also be selected to assess the winning State and Territory projects. The judging panel will be independent of all submissions.
Judges decisions shall be final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
Submissions will be assessed solely on the hard copy submission and in accordance with these Submission Guidelines. Summaries, logos and pictures are expected as supporting material but will not be formally assessed unless included in the body of the formal submission document. Announcement of Winners
Each State and Territory will announce their own overall project winner and category winners.
State and Territory announcements will be made at local ceremonies held during August and September. All State and Territory winners will proceed to the national finals. State and Territory category winners will be judged in those same categories at the national level whilst only the overall State and Territory Project winners will be eligible to win the principal national “Project of the Year” award. The national winners will be announced at the national awards ceremony held as part of AIPM annual national conference.
The outcome of the judging process will not be announced prior to the related awards ceremony. At the sole discretion of the judging panels, high commendations or local chapter awards may be awarded for submissions of significant merit. |
