Anybody who has attended a programme management event in the last ten years has probably witnessed at least one debate on the definition of programme assurance. Usually it’s an ideological battle between various camps of theorists and methodologists, where words like ‘confidence’ and ‘likelihood of success’ are bandied about quite liberally.
I’ve worked and lived in London for most of the past thirty years. It hasn’t been a ‘static’ experience: One of the great things about being in London is the ricocheting around town to meet with clients, suppliers and colleagues, intersecting along the way with the many other people that make up the whole London experience.
What started life as a joke from the movie ‘Airplane!’ created some great insights into management behaviours in a crisis.
For those who’ve never seen the aviation comedy classic ‘Airplane!’, there’s a scene where, faced with improbably incapacitated pilots at 40,000 feet, the flight attendant keys the microphone and ‘gentilely’ asks the passengers if any of them can fly a plane. Cue comedic panic…