Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 16)

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Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 16)

Mark Kozak-Holland

May 7, 2007






Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his “agile” approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. With an invasion imminent, Part 15 looked at how Churchill stiffened resolve, took the offense with decisive action, and focused on the moral dimension of events. This article switches gears and looks at how Churchill’s organization prepared itself for the air battle to meet his short-term objectives of staving off the invasion.
 
The core to Churchill’s project communications were around radio broadcasts used to promote his strategy (Part 11). This and his governance framework (Part 10) would allow his organization to effectively pursue the complex project, the single objective of which was the survival of the U.K. Through the communication plan (Part 13 and Part 14) he gave his team the breathing space to execute the project.



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