Скачать или смотреть Manage This | Episode 134 | Creating an Olympic Legacy: London 2012

Going for gold: How to successfully manage an Olympic project! Ian Crockford was the Project Executive at the Olympic Delivery Authority, the public body responsible for ensuring the delivery of the infrastructure, design and construction of buildings, transport, and the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The venues were required to use materials and components that could be reused, relocated, or recycled to meet the Olympic Delivery Authority’s sustainability objectives.

Ian and his team were facing huge constraints which impacted project planning. They were challenged to deliver venues and infrastructure that met long-term regeneration goals, and to also deliver intensive short-term requirements for the games. Ian explains the six project objectives and how they met these objectives for an event which catered to 300 thousand people per day. (250k visitors, 25k media and 25k athletes)

This project had an immovable deadline. The goal was to complete the project one year in advance to allow for testing. Listen in to hear if they achieved the goal! Ian breaks down the planning process and how time constraints impacted management of the project schedule. Hear how they were also challenged with sticking to scope and budget in the midst of the global economic crisis of 2012. Ian also talks about the international nature of the teams and how they facilitated team building and communication on a culturally diverse team. Ian also led the London Eye project from concept to operation; he is a delivery focused business executive with experience in financing, master planning, structuring and assembling high profile engineering schemes.