Mission Mangal - An exemplar of 'effective' Project Management in a VUCA environment

#projectmanagement Mission Mangal is a movie that is loosely based on the life of scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation who contributed to the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary expedition. One can draw the insight from this movie that like any business project, space projects are also a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product. It requires applying specific knowledge, skills and tools to specific activities in order to meet project requirements. Nevertheless, the only difference between a business project and a space project is that the stakes are too high in a space project. Space projects are also limited by budgets, schedules and resources. However,the budgets run in hundreds of crores, schedules are planned for the next couple of years which may get extended to another couple of years and thousands of people work on the project. In other words, the team grows old with the project. Experts from various disciplines are brought toge...