Tragedy in Haiti: It is Time to Think in PM for Post Disaster Recovery

In this podcast Ricardo talks about the disaster that happened in Haiti on January 12, 2010, making a reflection about the facts using the Project Management perspective and how coordinated activities promoted by PM practices can bring agility to the recovery. He also approaches the PMI Methodology for Post Disaster Reconstruction, provided by PMI Educational Foundation, available at http://www.pmi.org/pmief/humanitarian/PDRM.asp.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes' PM podcast today. I'd like to talk to you and share with you my thoughts about what happened in about one week ago in It regarding the heir for a week, that happened killing hundreds of thousands of people. And I'd like, for sure, every single person looks to this as a strategy, something very, very bad happening, but everybody looks this problems with a, their professional I's the doctor looks, this is how I can help people that are seek and need some existence, like an engineer.

It can look to the glass' of an engineer thinking about how to build this infrastructure, the buildings, the roads, the bridges. How can I do that? And in the first moment that I saw this on the television is such a Tragedy that I start to look using the glasses that I know how to use the project management classes and something that scares me is carrying me a lot. I saw hundreds of people trying to help, but without too much coordination.

And then I saw people sending food to the country and they cannot transport the, to the ground. And its amazing. And the people try and working hard in what is, this is the lack of something quick, like quick project management, trying to coordinate all the efforts. There's a lot of very good people trying to help. So we need as the project manager to look how we can help in this kind of situation, because unfortunately this wasn't the first one and it will not be the last one.

So we need to prepare this is part of the life and for sure, I see all the very good faith trying to help you, but let's think in how we can coordinate that. And I remember this my time at PMI and I remember the PMI Methodology for post disaster recovery. PMI did that with volunteers, for the Katrina, for as an answer for, to the Katrina hurricane. And now this is [email protected] slash PMI E or F.

This is a training program for NGOs and people working on the fields. How we can get a very quick and sharp answer to this kind of problem. This we can not only save people, but give a better condition of for people suffering too much. So this is something that we need to, I don't have the answer for all problems of the word. I don't have even the answers for my own life, but this is something that this Podcast my intent is to make people reflecting how we can help that, how we can articulate what if this is not the case to help now in It maybe we can prepare ourselves to help in that in our community when something like that happens so we can prepare it ourselves to have a very proactive approach.

You look always in waste of how we can coordinate, make the better for us to make things happen in this and maybe, Oh, our knowledge in our redness on that can save a lot of people and can reduce the amount of suffering that the people are having. Now. I hope you enjoy it. And regardless of the religion of each one, maybe it's sometimes to pray for everybody there and for a lot of hope that better days we'll be coming.

Thank you very much. See you next week with another five minutes. PM Podcast bye.

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