https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/bureau-of-meteorology-new-website-cost-blowout-to-96-million/106042202
Integrity in project management is everything – managing a project can be complex, and challenging, but if someone is trying to pull the wool over your eyes, as a project manager, you need to know when to call out the nonsense and keep the project on a steady track. There is no way this website rebuild was worth nearly $100m.
To the sponsors who are not really sure what your project team is doing, getting regular project health checks will keep you informed, and make sure no one is off track.
I specialise in project health checks – a regular report on the health of this project would have raised serious integrity questions early on, not to mention governance issues with the approval processes that obviously led to this money being signed off.
