CATEGORY | Metaphors

Project management is a discipline that requires many skills. A project manager must have knowledge and experience relating to budgeting and planning, as well as people skills and the ability to make decisions under pressure. The former can be learned in the classroom or through lessons. The latter, however, is learned on the job in real-world scenarios. When it comes to making decisions under pressure and getting things done quickly, what better place to get project managements lessons than from the emergency room?

Project management relies on executing a series of steps well. It requires that certain standards be upheld at all times. Projects also require that milestones and timeframes are maintained throughout a series of complex, coordinated steps. All things considered, few industries operate like this on such a consistent basis as the airline industry. While flight was thought impossible about a century ago, it’s now become so routine that you can go online, buy a ticket and be anywhere in the world tomorrow, all in relative comfort as well! Perhaps project managers can learn a few things from this process. Let’s explore some project management steps in action by observing the commercial airline industry!