Project Management in jailbreak

Because the American drama jailbreak has all the characteristics of uniqueness, temporary, and clear goals required by the project, we can fully view the jailbreak planned by Michael Scofield as a project. As a project manager, Michael Scofield's knowledge, calmness, self-confidence, and determination, as well as a careful plan for the goal of jailbreak, have earned him the trust of others. He also uses this trust and dependency to skillfully coordinate various resources among key figures, and thus successfully completed the "unfinished task" of jailbreak ".

Text/Si Jin Qi (head of xuanjicang R & D department of Shanda Network Development Co., Ltd)

Jailbreak is not a new theme. I remember that there was "Xiao shenke salvation", which was also about jailbreak. The main character in it is also a smart character. It is calm and tough. In fact, "jailbreak" attracts me not the subject matter, nor the actor's acting skills, but the fact that its plot is integrated into manyProject ManagementConcept.

Here, I graduated from a famous university with a master's degree in architecture and worked at Michael Scofield, a structural engineer from a well-known construction company, he was imprisoned to rescue his brother, Lincoln Bruce, who was about to be executed for the death of the vice president ). Before he went to jail, he spent a lot of energy, carefully preparing for the early stage, and then deliberately robbed the bank with a gun according to the steps he planned, this allowed us to enter the fox Riverside prison where Lincoln Bruce was located and set up a jailbreak team there.

During the entire jailbreak process, we can see that Michael Scofield's almost perfect plan, the execution of the project process, and the control of the stakeholders of the project, and the ability to grasp project risks and make changes in a timely manner. In various aspects, Michael Scofield is a successful project manager with knowledge, calmness, self-confidence, and determination, as well as meticulous plans for the goal of jailbreak, this gives him the trust of others. He also uses such trust and dependency to skillfully deal with various stakeholders. Finally, he successfully completed the jailbreak program with his outstanding resource coordination capabilities.

Four points of jailbreak experience

Jailbreak has the characteristics of a project, has its temporary and clear goals, and has very strict time constraints (before Lincoln Bruce executes the death penalty ). However, its operation is limited by limited resources and requires good planning, implementation, and control. In this jailbreak project, michael scofield applied various knowledge, skills, and tools to project activities. TheProject ManagementThe inspiration is also very professional.

First, preliminary research and project plan.

The success of any project is inseparable from the initial research activities for the completion of the project objectives, as well as the feasibility plan developed based on the objectives and research analysis. Michael Scofield collected information about the prison and its surroundings, including road traffic, after learning that Lincoln Bruce was shut down at the Fox Riverside prison. Then they used the drawings of the renovation and construction of their company at the Fox Riverside prison, and used their own professional knowledge in architecture and other aspects, cleverly design the drawings and some key tips of the entire plan as a document, and write them on it to complete the preparation for the most important resources.

In addition to preparing non-human resources, he also analyzed the stakeholders of the project.

First, he needs the weakest security protection for jailbreak. According to his analysis on the construction drawings, the infirmary is the easiest way to implement jailbreak. As a result, he collected information about the female doctor Sarah tankeridi, including her graduation school, her motto, and the rewards she had received. He even regularly approached a female doctor in disguise for diabetes. He also checked the relevant medical materials. This information also makes it possible for a female doctor to implement a "male plan.

Second, when the jailbreak is successful, it will surely go on the road to escape. How can it disappear? He noticed that Abaz, after serving his sentence on the Forks River, found the key witness of interest to him, phelassi, so that he could use this bait to implement resource control over Abaz, in order to allow Abaz to serve Him-provide escape means of transportation.

Once again, money is needed to protect his and his brother's life. So he noticed d B Cooper in the Fox River, collecting information about his background and his family, including his name and place of residence, without the support of such information, Michael Scofield could not use d B Cooper's test of him to gain his trust. You need to know that d B Cooper is an older and experienced wise man. If he knows nothing about michael scofield's plan and feasibility, in the end, he will not risk jailbreak with him.

Finally, he also met a strip girl and helped her get a green card in the United States in exchange to provide him with a credit card (the magnetic stripe above is used to forge a no-go card ).

The above preparations gave him enough confidence to go to the fox Riverside prison to rescue Lincoln Bruce. The proper emphasis on and analysis of project stakeholders also ensured the success of Michael Scofield's jailbreak. This reminds me of my study at the time.Project ManagementA negative example of the Knowledge System: In the qianniu Software Update Project, managers ignored and despised the important stakeholder of the legal department from the very beginning, resulting in a lot of document rework, this increases the risk of project cost and final completion. This is because the stakeholders of the project are not thoroughly analyzed in the initial stage of the project. As a result, the work that should have been prepared in advance has not been fully done, which leads to subsequent rework.

Second, resource management.

He admired Michael Scofield's ability to allocate and coordinate various resources, including hardware resources other than human resources, such as the tools he used, watch timing, screws on the bench, Pills needed to pretend to be diabetic, etc. Every tool can play a key role in the loop.

In terms of human resources, that is, the stakeholders of the project, he also shows excellent coordination, communication and control capabilities. This was his plan for the stakeholder female doctor Sarah donkolidi, the gang's boss Abaz, the super thief d B Cooper, and the strip girl. The unplanned roommates, such as Sucre, pedago "backpack", "NOTE" for pills, and the prison director and the captain Guard, are all unplanned. This also shows that the biggest variable in the project execution process is "person", which is also the key to determining the project's success or failure. These people have their own unique and even conflicting interests, needs, personalities, and backgrounds. However, one thing is common. Everyone plays a key role in project success. If one person or one thing is not well handled, the jailbreak may fail. However, no matter the reason or motivation for joining the jailbreak team, they all share a common goal, that is, the jailbreak is successful; the opposite of this team-the demands of the prison stakeholders will be diversified. The prison director will use michael scofield to build the Taj Mahal model for his wife, the captain guard blindly and confidently enjoys the fun of teasing prisoners and obtaining benefits from them. Female prison doctors are looking for loved ones ...... All these requirements are available to Michael Scofield. After finding out what we have in common, Michael Scofield is on the verge of relying on trust and interdependence. This trust and his accurate positioning of stakeholders allow him to use the dependencies between stakeholders of the project to find the resources and support he needs for jailbreak. He showed us how to dynamically manage stakeholders of the project closely following the needs and interests.

The impact of stakeholders on the project may be positive or negative. Positive stakeholders are usually the beneficiaries in the project's successful results, while negative stakeholders are the ones who get negative results from the project's success. A project manager who ignores stakeholders will have a destructive impact on the project results.

Third, risk control.

Risks always come along during project implementation. Some of them are predictable and ready for the plan, some are sudden, and temporary solutions are needed.

The project stakeholders and temporary expansion of the jailbreak team mentioned above are only part of the changes he encountered during the jailbreak process. After the first jailbreak plan failed, michael scofield enabled another alternative solution, which can also be seen inProject ManagementRisk Awareness. When asked, michael scofield often said, "I have already figured out any possibilities ." However, unexpected things may happen one after another, even killing his jailbreak plan. Several times, he was in desperate circumstances and eventually saved the danger. Why? In addition to his meticulous plan at the beginning, his calm wit, calm, calm, and confident psychological qualities and timely response are the root cause. There is no thing that remains unchanged, and we have no realm that remains unchanged. Therefore, when an emergency occurs, the most important thing is to face and solve the problem, rather than quarreling with each other or exploring who is responsible. Although we can see that he has encountered various problems again and again, he can finally calm down and make a calm analysis of the changes when every change comes on time, including several times approaching despair, then, the change plan is controlled or the plan is enabled. At last, make corresponding adjustments on the premise of following the goal of the jailbreak project. Most importantly, he can often turn negative to positive, so that the changes and the results of the changes will develop in a direction conducive to jailbreak, and even become an effective resource for jailbreak. This is also the reason why his team has gradually expanded, but still succeeded. Solving problems relies not on "inspiration" or "God", but on your own knowledge accumulation and association analysis capabilities.

Project risks originate from uncertainties in any project. We can avoid known risks through contingency plans, such as the alternative plan of Michael Scofield. However, we cannot actively manage unknown risks. In fact, we can look at the risks from the perspective of the threats or opportunities that the risks pose to the project's success. The threats to the project are acceptable as long as they can be offset by the gains from such risks. Any risk that can lead to a successful project may be a battle to benefit the project.

Fourth, time management.

Throughout the story, Michael Scofield made time measurements and we can see the importance of time in the entire jailbreak process, sometimes accurate to seconds. The prison guard should conduct regular inspections, so the time required for each visit must be accurately calculated. Similarly, for underground pipelines, You need to calculate the pipe size, size, and water flow in advance to ensure that the water can be filled to a proper place at a relatively accurate time. In the jailbreak process, precise calculation is also required to ensure no delay. The first jailbreak failed, but in order to meet Lincoln Bruce in the infirmary, we also need to accurately calculate the time for their respective actions. In all these times, Michael Scofield has made a prior measurement or planning. In the real implementation of the plan, we can also see that the time is pressing. Due to the tension of Sarah tancidi, I forgot to screw the water tank before the air, resulting in a project delay of 5 minutes, as well as the sudden fall of d B Cooper in the back end also delayed some time, and the result was that it almost led to Michael Scofield's jailbreak failure.

From Michael Scofield's time management, we can see that he is logical, organized, and sequential in every step of the plan. This is the sort of activities in the project time management, determine the dependencies between various planned activities and estimate the activity resources, that is, calculate the resources and time required to complete the planned activities. Then there will be a clear schedule and a time node for each activity. This allows you to monitor the time consumption during project execution. Otherwise, after Michael Scofield forgets to unscrew the water tank screw in Sucre, the project cannot be evaluated for a 5-minute extension. If the project manager does not have a clear quantitative value for the project execution progress, it is difficult to ensure that the project is completed on time in most cases. Or it can be completed on time, but it will cause a waste of idle resources and increase the project cost risk.

Reflection on jailbreak

Michael Scofield escaped from jail here.Project ManagementIs undoubtedly successful, because in any case his goal is achieved. However, there are still many lucky ingredients in it. If we leave these lucky ingredients behind, we can see that there is still something wrong with him.

1. Do not trust team members. At the beginning, in order to test the confidentiality of Sucre, he was directly confined, resulting in the involvement of the mental prisoner, resulting in the risk of team members.

2. the manufacturing violence caused martial law and made enough time to break through the walls. As a result, the situation was once out of control and unattended at the entrance. The direct consequence was that the "backpack" was added after discovering the secret. His participation once hurt key members Abaz, causing great risks.

3. While digging the channel, the prison guard was not prepared to conceal the attack, causing Lincoln Bruce to fight the prison guard to delay the time. The direct consequence is that the first jailbreak failed and the plan had to be enabled.

4. the sewers in the infirmary were opened too early without any disguise. As a result, after being discovered by the repairer, the program failed.

5. critical resources or creden should be backed up. However, it may be due to a short preparation time that Michael Scofield did not back up his body so that when he was burned, he almost lost his "map ", the entire plan was aborted.

There are still many details that have not been done in place, so we will not enumerate them here. From these defects, we can see that temporary problems we encounter during the execution of the plan cannot be taken care of and solved temporarily. Instead, we should take measures seriously to eliminate hidden risks. In addition, critical data and documents must be backed up. After all, the sky is unpredictable!

But no matter how he succeeded, he was defeated by the King, the truth from ancient times. This is also true for many enterprises. When a company succeeds, it may be wrong to look back at the path it has taken. However, the error is also correct. For example, without the involvement of a mental prisoner, the burned map of Michael Scofield will never be found. Without **, there may be no hero to save the beauty, and it cannot be more deeply trusted by the female doctor Sarah tankeridi.

Project ManagementIt is an art, an art that integrates multiple disciplines, and an integrated management skill that integrates the professional knowledge, general management skills, and communication skills in the application field. Maybe there's almost "normalization" in Michael Scofield"Project ManagementBehind the scenes, what impressed the Chinese audience's mind is human nature. "Jailbreak" shows human nature everywhere. The prison director gave Michael Scofield a lot of convenience to the Taj Mahal to be given to his wife. SUCRE faithfully served michael scofield to meet his girlfriend outside prison, even adventurous to fill the possibly discovered hole; d B Cooper has contributed to joining the jailbreak team to see his daughter's last side; Abaz, A very difficult Member, Michael Scofield, seized his need for witnesses, even lost his toes, eventually controlled him and owned all the prison resources for action ...... Everyone in this jailbreak team has a sexual weakness, and Michael Scofield is well-held on these weaknesses and member needs. "If you want to obtain it, you must give it first !" Maybe it is his biggest highlight in the project's Human Resource Management. According to the following sentence: the weakness of human nature makes management invincible.