Who are those excellent visionary Project Managers who anticipated that there would be a fatal medical virus named COVID (I MUST be sure that it is not understood as a computer virus)?

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Prolay Chaudhury Practice Lead & Lead Solution Architect| Chaudhury, Inc. Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Who are those excellent visionary Project Managers who anticipated that there would be a fatal medical virus named COVID (I MUST be sure that it is not understood as a computer virus) that will eat up humanity? Not only that, they already had the risk mitigation plans in their Project Management arsenal!!!

For the last two years, I wonder if there must be some project managers scattered around the world who envisioned that the COVID would soon be destroying the economy. They created the risk mitigation plans for their respective projects!!

Posted: Sep 3, 2021 12:53 PM (Updated by author: Sep 3, 2021 12:57 PM)

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Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada

Sep 12, 2021 12:49 PM

Replying to Ganesh Kumar

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As Kiran rightly said an interesting philosophical argument, just taking it further more.....

The recent Afghanistan taken over by Taliban. If we were do risk assessment of these incident, how will it be ? Now that is a known risk, how will it be treated ? Anyone thinking about it ?

It is not now a 'known risk', it is now an issue. However that being said now that it has occurred it raises new risk which need to be identified and analysed. Couple things to keep in mind here if we are discussing PROJECT risks. 1) does it impact on the specific project? and 2) do we, can we, have control over the probability of occurrence or the impact?

A project manager delivering a project within Afghanistan has his hands full trying to determine what may happen next, how it impacts his project and what he can do about it.

A project delivered in Western Canada will most likely have minimal probability of an impact. The only consideration in the risk management plan is: "Can this event, or any aftershocks, affect project delivery? - negligible, next."

Posted: Sep 13, 2021 11:14 AM (Updated by author: Sep 13, 2021 11:14 AM)

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