Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 4)

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Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 4)

Mark Kozak-Holland

July 10, 2006





Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his "agile" approach to project management.
 
Part 1 introduced the series and how Churchill was to acquire a project from hell. Part 2 looked at how Churchill had battled the British government into taking actions, but intransigence to events failed to stop the slide toward war. Part 3 looked at how technology had allowed for mobile warfare, but the Allies were slow to adapt to it. They were still grounded in the World War I mindset of static defenses rather than the agility of the defender. This article looks at how Churchill acquired the project and took immediate actions.
 
By May 1940, the United Kingdom faced a very grim situation and was hopelessly unprepared for a modern war (Part 2).



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