Project Lessons from the Great Escape (Stalag Luft III) (Lessons from History) - Softcover

Kozak-Holland, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1895186803 ISBN 13: 9781895186802

Publisher: Multi-Media Publications Inc, 2007

Synopsis

While you might think your project plan is perfect, would you bet your life on it? In World War II, a group of 220 captured airmen did just that -- they staked the lives of everyone in the camp on the success of a project to secretly build a series of tunnels out of a prison camp their captors thought was escape proof. The prisoners formally structured their work as a project, using the project organization techniques of the day. This book analyzes their efforts using modern project management methods and the nine knowledge areas of the "Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK). Learn from the successes and mistakes of a project where people really put their lives on the line.

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About the Author

Mark is a PMP, IPMA-D, and a Senior Business Consultant and certified in the Consultant Profession. He specializes in helping organizations evaluate how emerging technologies can impact their business. Mark puts a different spin on complex business problems by applying lessons from history. In his book series, Lessons-from-History, he uses relevant historical case studies to examine how projects and emerging technologies of the past solved complex problems. Mark believes history has great relevance in business today. A good analogy helps to simplify, frame and put today's complex projects into context. It builds up a better understanding and enhances reader retention.

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From the Back Cover

The Great Escape book and materials are currently being used for one of the class modules in an online project management course at University of Denver University College for a graduate level class called MOTM4470, Project Management Dynamics. As part of the syllabus the book provides examples and a relationship to the PMBOK knowledge areas.

Review by Ray Kaufman (CO, United States) Adjunct Professor at Denver Univ, University College.

Are you looking for book to help show other how to identify and use project management principles? Seeking examples of project management principles or categorizations? You have found it. I teach at the Graduate School level and we used the book, its story, ideas and examples to understand project management. My students read the book, praised its content and examples. We liked how the author made it project management practical. He showed us how to recognize issues and use it today.

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From the Inside Flap

The Great Escape is an extraordinary event from the Second World War. It was also a project that provides proof points for today's discipline of Project Management. The Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) was developed in 1983 and it has evolved with the 9 project management knowledge areas. Yet, how well founded are these? Is there evidence that projects of the past followed these intuitively, in the days before the project management discipline was established? This lesson-from-history explores this story of true determination, of individuals who struggled to meet project objectives and literally had to do it one step at a time. This was a seemingly impossible project to initiate, never mind complete.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multi-Media Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1895186803
• ISBN 13: 9781895186802
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276