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What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'm-afraid-I-can't-accept-that-proposal-dave dept.

Esther Schindler writes "It's certainly fun to pretend to find work inspiration from our favorite SF films. That's what Carol Pinchefsky does in two posts, one about positive business lessons you can take away from SF films (such as 'agile thinking can save many a project (and project manager) in a crisis' from Robocop and team motivation lessons from Buffy), and the other, 5 Project Management Horror Stories Found in Sci-Fi Movies, with examples of the impact of poor documentation on Captain America."

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  1. 7 Habits by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like it's time for Covey to come back to life and write "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Fictional Characters."

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    There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
  2. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sci-Fi teaches us not to hire George Lucas... he's terrible.

  3. Re:What Sci-fi movies? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been on several projects where I fervently wished "dust off and nuke it from orbit" was a project management option. It is, after all, the only way to be sure.