Perth Arena Project Management: Failings, Gaps in Theory and Ways to Address Them

This article reviews the Perth Arena project from a project management perspective. It discusses the major failings, gaps in theory and ways to address them. The original cost and time estimates for the project were made well before understanding and defining the project. The Perth Arena was estimated to cost $483 million, which was $323 million more as compared to that had been announced by the government in 2005. The major failures in the Perth Arena project were the shortfalls in the governance and management of project that had been suffered by the State to a huge risk than it was intended before.