A greater emphasis on effective risk management would help... Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
Use rolling wave planning. You only plan as much as you need, based on what you know. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
The problem is not project management. The problem is how the organization where project management is performed is ready for this type of things. Some people think that project managemet is a function to be developed without context. Totally wrong. Project management is a function within the organization strategy and organization strategy is which drives the organizational architecture. So, the question is: is the architecture ready for this type of situations?. Agile has been created for that. The problem is organizations like PMI seems do not understand that. Saving Changes...
Wade HarshmanScrum Master| GDITIndianapolis, In, United States
I like the responses above. And I would state that it's not necessarily "Project Management" (although it could be), but the skills that project managers bring.
For example, we've mentioned risk management. Good Project Managers know that risks must be analyzed and proportional responses prepared based on probability and impact. In this case, we might call P&I the rate of infection and the risk to those infected.
One of the interesting aspects of Coronavirus is that the reaction may be disproportionate to the risk, especially given that other diseases (such as influenza) have been more deadly this season and could have had similar strategies to reduce risk. The economic pain we have seen and expect to see is not directly tied to the disease itself, but rather from the reaction to the disease. Although we'll never truly know whether the response was warranted (just like you never really know if the medicine helped you recover, or if you simply recovered), it will be interesting to analyze the final results of the disease and see whether our worldwide responses were appropriate to the expected threat. Saving Changes...
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