{"id":985,"date":"2015-08-31T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=985"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:11:33","slug":"the-film-every-project-manager-should-watch-over-and-over-and-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"The film every project manager should watch, over and over and over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-987\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai_poster.jpg\" alt=\"The Bridge on the River Kwai poster\" width=\"342\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai_poster.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai_poster-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bridge on the River Kwai poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Faced with the irrepressible Imperial Japanese Army, to which his own doom appears certain, and ordered to construct a bridge to aid enemy combatants what does Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in the 1957 film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai\" target=\"_blank\">The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/a> do? Build the best possible bridge he can.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson is a lover of engineering and quality standards, something sorely lacking in today&#8217;s &#8220;built so it can be thrown away and replaced&#8221; world.<\/p>\n<p>Not satisfied with the quality of the first bridge\u00a0Nicholson orders a second to be built downstream since to him starting a new project is better than a living with a poor quality project.<\/p>\n<p>IMDB has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0219237\/quotes\" target=\"_blank\">page with quotes<\/a> from the movie, like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it &#8211; Colonel Nicholson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film is an excellent reminder of how project managers, even in the face of adversity, should care about the quality of the final product &#8211; be it a bridge, building or business improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with the irrepressible Imperial Japanese Army, to which his own doom appears certain, and ordered to construct a bridge to aid enemy combatants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}