Practical thinking on governance, integration, assurance and the structural causes of program drift — drawn from 20+ years on Australia's hardest Defence programs.
The point at which a program hands over to operations is not the end of the governance challenge. It is the point at which…
Most governance frameworks are designed to identify bad news. But what if one of the biggest governance risks is actually good news? In my experience,…
After more than two decades working across Defence acquisition, sustainment, systems engineering, and capability assurance programs, I’ve become increasingly convinced of one thing: Most…
One of the biggest misconceptions in complex Defence programs is that assurance is primarily about compliance. It isn’t. Real assurance is the organisation’s ability…
In large Defence programs, the most persistent risk is not failure – it is the confidence that everything is under control when key signals…
In Defence, delivery failure is rarely technical — it’s structural. One of the most persistent challenges in complex Defence capability programs is not catastrophic…