Also on trial at the meeting were the TTC’s oft-maligned project management capabilities, thanks to a KPMG report investigating Toronto’s legendary over-time and over-budget transit projects. KPMG deemed TTC’s project management “at a low-standardized level of maturity,” instead of a “high-standardized level,” which is KPMG’s “benchmark” for public sector entities. In English, that means the TTC has formalized procedures for project management, but they aren’t monitored or enforced well enough. It wasn’t TTC management who decided they wanted “grandiose” stations instead of modest ones. It wasn’t TTC management that shut down work at York University for half a year because of a worker’s death.

Source: National Post September 29, 2016 04:18 UTC