| WEEK 11 |
| Thursday. 17 March, 2022 | |
| 11:30 am |
March 2022 Chapter LuncheonMarch 2022 Chapter Luncheon Speaker: Mark Kozak, Topic: Titanic Presentation Mark's presentation is on failed project leadership. It addresses the difficult project management dilemma of interfering stakeholders. It probes the difficulties in managing principal stakeholders and the sponsor through a project, and how they can unwittingly compromise it. Through the Titanic case study the presentation examines the construction project that designed, built, and launched the ship through a project management lens. It reviews the background as to how White Star initiated and planned a project to outpace its competition with 3 super liners, using the latest in emerging technologies. The sponsor's determination “to create the ultimate passenger (first class) experience” became the project mantra. The presentation then analyzes each of the project stages and shows how stakeholder meddling that started in the requirements process, caused continual problems for the naval architects. The project leader’s inability to control the meddling led to compromises which then led to serious flaws in a supposedly "perfect ship," considered so safe that it did not even need a full complement of lifeboats. With the safety systems compromised the probability of a disaster increased substantially with the pomp and grandeur of a maiden voyage.
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