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by Drake Settsu
Sharing my Project Management adventures and some tips.
I like to keep my articles brief and to the point.
Project Management is an Art, Science, and Discipline.
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Hawaii Civil Defense
Hawaii gets a nice Saturday morning wake up alert on their phone.
Words cannot describe the initial reaction you get when you receive an alert that you need to seek immediate shelter because a ballistic missile is on it's way. You only have about 20 minutes to find your hiding place.
Project Management failed on setting up the new civil defense preparedness for a ballistic missile attack on Hawaii. The failure caused panic and pain. Your life could be ending in 20 minutes. You keep waiting for the all clear and nothing happens. It took over 38 minutes for the Hawaii Civil Defense to send out an alert that there is no threat.
Some lessons learned:
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There was no leadership from the top to bottom that day. Just confusion. They knew immediately that the alert was and error.
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Step up, no one had the guts to take charge of the situation to immediately send out an alert that there is no missile on it's way.
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How does one person have access to such a critical life and death alert without management authorizing the alert to be sent out.
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Training and safeguards was obviously missing in the project plan.
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No contingency plan was properly developed to execute in the event of an erroneous alert going out to the public.
My final thoughts on the incident is that Project Management and Leadership play such an import part no matter what type of project it is. In this case the residents and visitors in Hawaii will never forget this date 01-13-2018 because a Project Manager and lack of Leadership really really messed up bad.
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Posted on: January 16, 2018 06:20 AM
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