The People, Process, & Progress Podcast - The Godzilla Principle | FF60

Episode Date: April 22, 2022

In "The Godzilla Principle" I share the concept of the same name from Mark S. Dobson's book "Streetwise Project Management". 

Morning, everybody. Welcome to Foundations Friday, Episode 60, The Godzilla Principle. This is not my idea. It's from Michael Dobson from a book I've talked about on this show called Streetwise Project Management. It's been around for a bit. I highly advise it. It's a good starter if you're looking to get into project management or a good reminder, good baseline, and a readable kind of version with all the elements of the Project Grinch body of knowledge. So what's the Godzilla principle? So Michael Dobson talks about in the Godzilla movies, the original ones, the old ones, they find this baby monster and there's this person. One of the people in the movie is like, hey, we should kill this thing now.

And everyone's like, no, it's a baby. And then, of course, later on, Godzilla gets big. He's rampaging through the city and destroying people. And everyone's like, what do we do well Michael Dobson's idea and this Godzilla principle is project managers know what to do um now the words that he uses is to kill the monster while it's still in the embryo embodies another important element of project management the art of early detection and management of project risks right so really you, kind of a metaphor comparison of the Godzilla principle, you know, instead of taking out the monster, right, before it becomes a threat, like in the movie that they

didn't do. So then it comes back and destroys your city is in your projects and your programs as part of your portfolios, find the risks early, manage the risks, accept the risks, you know, passing on whatever you need to do, how you're going to take care of those, but find them early. Think about the Godzilla principle of finding those monsters, those risks early before they become issues, grow bigger and take care of them early, right ahead of time. So I hope you all are having a great day. It's a nice spring day here in the mountains of Blacksburg, Virginia. If it's not good weather where you are, it's still another day, right? So we're all lucky for that. Thank you so much. I'm lucky to have you all as listeners. Thanks so much for listening to the

podcast, for going to the peopleprocessprogress.com website. If you're interested or have somebody that's interested to be in on the show, there's a guest form there. Let me know. Let's have a chat. Thank you so much again. Stay safe out there. Wash those hands and Godspeed.