George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
I have seen lots of comments indicating the challenges Brazil have facing hosting the Olympics. Please comment on this if you wish. But....
I have not seen many comments on the POSITIVE aspects of hosting such a great event. In terms of project opportunities and the expectation that it will contribute to the country growth as financial investments will benefit the country once Olympics is over.
Great opportunity for Projects, Project Managers and the country Project Management itself. Saving Changes...
Deonisio de AssisProject Manager| Mirante TecnologiaBrasília, Df, Brazil
Aug 04, 2016 8:19 PM
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Deonisio - but in terms of Project Management, do you think it benefits us as PMs overall? new Projects during and after the games organizations completes?
Yes. I think there will be benefits to PMs from the experience of leading Olympics mega projects with the particularities of Rio de Janeiro / Brasil. In the next months surely there will be seminars with the PMs who led projects in the Olympics and they will have lots of lessons learned to present. About new projects after the games, i think there will be some projects related to the Olympics, but i really don't know if we will have several new projects all over the country seizing the practices, experiences and even the PMs, because of the present economic situation.
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1 reply by George Lewis
Aug 05, 2016 7:23 PM
George Lewis
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Deonisio - Thanks for your input.... Let's hope we have lots of projects before and after... I let's hope the economic situation gets better as well.
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George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Aug 05, 2016 2:48 PM
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Yes. I think there will be benefits to PMs from the experience of leading Olympics mega projects with the particularities of Rio de Janeiro / Brasil. In the next months surely there will be seminars with the PMs who led projects in the Olympics and they will have lots of lessons learned to present. About new projects after the games, i think there will be some projects related to the Olympics, but i really don't know if we will have several new projects all over the country seizing the practices, experiences and even the PMs, because of the present economic situation.
Deonisio - Thanks for your input.... Let's hope we have lots of projects before and after... I let's hope the economic situation gets better as well. Saving Changes...
Rogerio SantosDirector| .: RIZ | iko Software :.Rio De Janeiro, Rj, Brazil
first phase was completed on time, according scope and budget. I keep believing. Saving Changes...
George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Hi Rogerio - Keep believing... There are also thousands of other personal projects of each participants and delegates. Years of project preparations for many athletes. Saving Changes...
Ahmed KhalilEx. Chief Projects Officer & Current COO & GM | FFS LLCDubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Olympics is same as any program or mega project.
If well managed then the benefits from such an event can be materialized, transitioned and sustained.
Having that said we need to wait and see:
1- Total cost of hosting Rio Olympics
2- Benefit to cost analysis (planned vs actual)
3- Success in Benefits realization
4- Success in Benefits transition
5- Success in Benefits sustainability
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Alvaro VieiraDiretor Executivo (Managing Director)| Inforgel Engenharia Consultoria em GestãoSão José Dos Campos, Brazil, Brazil
I am sure, it will be Ok. Saving Changes...
Otamilo AraujoProject Manager| In transition phaseSao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
I am Brazilian and I'm living in Sao Paulo.
This format created by the International Olympic Committee to transfer the Games to different places every time has demonstrate one of the primary and serious errors of theories and Project Management practices.
After so many this practice which are actual studies of the event and the next decade and what were the concrete results of benefits? What places did not materialize and which the worst? We note that there is the famous "lessons learned".
This model serves the representatives concerned that recent history has shown undue financial fraud and favoritism. In Brazil too is no different. See the operation Wash the Federal Police of Brazil Jet and embezzlement in the construction of Maracana and the construction of all works, including the Olympic Village.
The model of Olympic Games should be rethought and so not be building new arenas every 4 years. The best would be to elect up to four places in the world and build permanent arenas interlando Olympics and World Cup in these facilities. The result would cover the maintenance of these and redistribute the nations in the form of effective social projects of the sport. It could be these arenas being built by a global consortium with large investments of all nations and their relative shares of the actual outcome of events.
It seems to me a more consistent design model with good global management practices. effective lessons to improve future projects continuously, since they are projects of the same nature and each cycle time.
Best Regards,
Otamilo Cintra de Araujo
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Aug 12, 2016 2:35 PM
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On the contrary, moving the Olympic games create opportunity all around the planet.
Help build sporting infrastructure, that in most case would not be build. We had the Olympic in Montreal in 1976 and most of the infrastructure is still being use.
I think there challenge is more to have a different way of attributing the games. Could be to have a certain level of infrastructure in place before putting a candidacy to be hosting Olympic.
And maybe part would be to have much more supervision on the progress of construction, clear rule that would permit to cancel/transfert the games to an other location if thing are not in place at certain key moment.
In the end any major public infrastructure project is a major challenge. And it is seen has a potential place for business by many not so clean entrepreneurs.
We had our share for the Montreal Olympic.
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I think the whole point of moving the Olympics is part of its mandate.
Yes, it is more awkward, inconvenient and expensive to move them every four years. That's the cost of "harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity." (Olympic Charter, page 13) Saving Changes...
Roberto RioPM Specialist| Seguradora LiderRio De Janeiro, Brazil
Hi George,
I appreciate the oportunity. Thank you.
Brazil Olympics is a great challenge indeed. In fact there are alot of negative comments and in my opinion the main challenge is our culture. In Brazil, people don´t have great ability to plan. We have great ideas to change and I think change is our main ability but change is more expensive than plannning. Planning is our weakeness. So our biggest oportunity is learn to plan.
I apologize about my English.
Best Regards,
Roberto Sauer
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1 reply by Stéphane Parent
Aug 12, 2016 9:22 AM
Stéphane Parent
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Never apologize about using another language, Roberto. We should celebrate that you are using a language you are less comfortable with. Tchau!
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
Aug 12, 2016 8:34 AM
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Hi George,
I appreciate the oportunity. Thank you.
Brazil Olympics is a great challenge indeed. In fact there are alot of negative comments and in my opinion the main challenge is our culture. In Brazil, people don´t have great ability to plan. We have great ideas to change and I think change is our main ability but change is more expensive than plannning. Planning is our weakeness. So our biggest oportunity is learn to plan.
I apologize about my English.
Best Regards,
Roberto Sauer
Never apologize about using another language, Roberto. We should celebrate that you are using a language you are less comfortable with. Tchau! Saving Changes...
