Comments on: Great Project Managers - John Roebling http://www.pmhut.com/great-project-managers-john-roebling Wed, 23 May 2012 09:08:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Gabriel Blanc-Laine http://www.pmhut.com/great-project-managers-john-roebling/comment-page-1#comment-9272 Gabriel Blanc-Laine Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:02:24 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=3751#comment-9272 I’ve read and seen specials on the story behind the Brooklyn Bridge time and time again and it still blows my mind. Sure, Notre Dame de Paris took 282 years (from 1163 to 1345) to be completed... but this 16 year bridge story in the 19th is simply incredible! The engineering feat alone is amazing, but I also think about how the actual project management skills that were required over two generations is often overlooked. When it’s broken down, the way you’ve explained it here, it almost seems like they were years wiser than many of us in regards to planning and projecting goals, not to mention all the politics involved. Often we joke about office politics, imaging dealing with the "real" politicians back then. And seriously, today, who would take over such a project without a solid Collaboration and Project Management solution? I’ve read and seen specials on the story behind the Brooklyn Bridge time and time again and it still blows my mind. Sure, Notre Dame de Paris took 282 years (from 1163 to 1345) to be completed… but this 16 year bridge story in the 19th is simply incredible! The engineering feat alone is amazing, but I also think about how the actual project management skills that were required over two generations is often overlooked.

When it’s broken down, the way you’ve explained it here, it almost seems like they were years wiser than many of us in regards to planning and projecting goals, not to mention all the politics involved. Often we joke about office politics, imaging dealing with the “real” politicians back then. And seriously, today, who would take over such a project without a solid Collaboration and Project Management solution?

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