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Presentation: Pearl Harbor, a Project Management Perspective (Part 2) 

December 7, 1941, or, in President F.D. Roosevelt’s words, “a date which will live in infamy.”  Could the Japanese surprise attack have been avoided?   If defending the Hawaiian island of Oahu against internal and external threats was the primary objective of the military authorities, could the U.S. forces have been better prepared?  Just how good was Japan’s plan for “Operation Hawaii”? This presentation will address how project management could have helped mitigate or outright avoid one of the darkest days in the history of the United States.  The first part of the presentation covers the events leading up to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, while the second part of the presentation examines the Japanese project of attacking Pearl Harbor and the U.S. project of defending Hawaii from a project management perspective, using the PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas.  Also discussed are the assumptions made by the military leaders of both countries, what happened to the main protagonists involved directly or indirectly in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and valuable lessons learned for today’s project managers.

Part 1 of this presentation was delivered at the June SW meeting.

Speaker:  Walter A. Viali, PMP

Walter is a Project Management and Project Management Office (PMO) Consultant, Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with a background in different industries, including  domestic and international assignments.  Walter was also a Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) for many years and has extensive knowledge and experience in Strategic Business Planning, Business Reengineering, Information Systems Planning, Portfolio Management, Process and Project Management, Project Management Office (PMO) implementation and Joint Application Development (JAD) session leading (approximately 4,500 hours of facilitation in the U.S., Europe and Asia in all phases of planning, application development, process redesign and problem solving). 

Walter significant experience in Process and Project Management assessments based on the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) and PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).  Walter was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston College of Technology in the Project Management Faculty.  He has been quoted in several trade journals and books over the years and has published articles on Business Reengineering and Information Technology issues. 

Walter has made numerous presentations on Strategic Planning, Application Development strategies and Business Reengineering at several conferences, seminars, colleges and universities from 1987 up to the present.   He has also delivered several presentations on Project Management topics to numerous PMI Chapters in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe, as well as at the PMI North American Congresses.  Walter was a member of the PMI team that authored the first release of the PMI OPM3 assessment standard.  He was on the Board of the PMI Houston Chapter from 2002 until 2008 and its President in 2007.  He was also on the Board of the PMI Clear Lake-Galveston Chapter in 2009-2010.    Walter is now the Region Mentor for PMI’s Region 6 (23 Chapters and over 22,000 PMI members in the South Central U.S.).

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Schlumberger Sugar Land Campus
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