--Originally published at Blog de Célia
In these news chapters we meet to new characters: Dr. Rizzoli and the ex-general Markov. Mr. T met Rizzoli because he is a world know risk manager, he asked him some advices to determine how to manage the risk and how improve the productivity in his future projects. The Tompkins met ex-general Markov since he thinks he will need him in the realization of the projects.
Mr. T lessons from his discussion with Dr. Rizzoli
To my opinion, the most important learnings that Mr. T had during his discussion with Dr. Rizzoli is that productivity improvement comes from long term investment. You can’t improve your productivity by fixing stuff with short term solutions. The work has to be thought in a long-term vision to really improve the quality of your production chain or of your teamwork. It means as well that it’s better to keep your team together when they work well (see the paragraph about the meeting with Markov), because they will get better together.
Then, the other learnings are about risk management. As Mr. T wrote “assess each risk for probability and likely cost” and “Track the causal risks, not just the ultimate undesirable outcomes”. I think that managing risk in a project can be really hard, because first you have to think to every risk that can occurs. These lessons, that Mr. T learnt about risk management make me think to the pareto principle that says that for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. I learnt this principle in my studies in my first year of two year degree (a few years ago, time flies, my teacher of project management told us that we have to look for the 20% biggest risks that could happen in the project to avoid 80%
