How to Become the 'Top Gun' of Your Project
Bart has been in ecommerce for over 20 years, and can't imagine a better job to have. He is interested in all things agile, or anything new to learn.
For weeks, the mission had been planned, challenged and refined. Pilots flew practice runs. Risks were debated and assumptions were questioned. Even in the final hours, Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Cyclone (Jon Hamm) disagreed about the best approach, and no rehearsal had gone exactly according to plan.
Finally, the operations center reported, "Support assets airborne. Strike package ready. Standing by for launch decision."
Cyclone didn't ask for another briefing. He didn't request one more rehearsal or another round of analysis. He simply said, "Send them."
It is one of the shortest lines in Top Gun: Maverick, but it represents something every project manager should recognize. That decision wasn't possible because the plan was perfect; it wasn't possible because every risk had been eliminated. It was possible because weeks of planning, preparation, debate and difficult decisions had produced something more valuable than certainty—they had produced confidence.
Every significant project reaches a similar moment.
Whether you're deploying a new application, migrating customers to a new platform, opening a new facility, or rolling out an enterprise-wide change, someone eventually has to decide whether to move forward. They may not say, "Send them," but the decision is the same.
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