The Titanic and the Five Deadly Sins of the Project Manager

Featuring Luis Alberto Caceres Villota - January 24, 2017

Topics: Leadership, New Practitioners, Risk Management, Scope Management

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41m 26s

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1.00

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10,420

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Overview

In this webinar the project RMS Titanic is explored to show some common causes of failure in projects. Why do skilled project managers does not follow common successful methodologies? Why do they sometimes neglect risk/quality/scope management?

The author will explore the "five sins of the project managers". These five sins are the five attitudes identified in recent researches as key failure factors in project management, which are: arrogance, ambition, ignorance, fraudulence and abstinence. Every sin is illustrated by situations that ocurred in the fated Titanic project.

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