Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 11)

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Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 11)

by mark kozak-holland

December 27, 2006


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. Part 10 looked at how Churchill set up a governance framework to transform the U.K. This article discusses the tactical choices he made to meet the short term objectives of his project, and the initial designs of the solution.
 
In 1940, emerging technology had mechanized warfare (Part 3) were agility was the new mode of operation in the military, so armies could move very rapidly. In April 1940, the invasion of Denmark and Norway demonstrated agility in action, as a combination of highly coordinated forces on sea, land and air had been very successful.



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