For the last few days, I’ve been watching PAW Patrol: The Movie with my son…

Several times.

You know… school holidays…

At this point, I could write the technical due diligence report without using my notes.

An idiot becomes mayor of Adventure City.

His first infrastructure idea?

Put a loop in the metro line.

A loop.

For a train full of people.

On the first trip, logically the train gets stuck upside down and everyone needs to be rescued.

It seems someone forgot to calculate that a train is not a toy car.

And probably the contractor was so bad that forgot about the completion test’s part.

But the mayor doesn’t let small details like those stop him.

Nex.

The major decides to build the tallest tower in the world.

How?

He is in a rush… for re-election probably.

So he decides to put an extremely slender extension on top of an existing skyscraper, the tallest in the city.

At the top, he puts his office so he can look at everyone from above.

En ego monument.

At least, the project objectives are clear.

Doggy procurement process.

Structures done in a rush.

Dubious reputation from the architects and key contractors…

Lack of consultation with stakeholders…

Then, the weather gets out of hand due to past wrong decisions made by himself.

The tower collapses.

And the mayor needs rescuing too.

Now…

If you’re wondering how someone this stupid could become mayor, I suggest looking at a few presidents and prime ministers first.

Reality usually surpasses fiction.

Otherwise, tell me how the problems in this children’s movie are painfully familiar:

A political deadline disguised as a programme.

A project nobody asked for or stopped to question.

A design that should have survived approximately four minutes of technical review.

And, doggy procurement process. Possibly even dodgy.

In the movie, a team of puppies arrives with rescue vehicles.

In a real project, you get a board meeting, an investigation and somebody asking who signed off the risk register.

If you have a good project in your hands, learn to spot the Humdinger decisions before the first train leaves the station.

Enter The Room.

The puppies have enough work already.

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