Sep 26, 2006
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Project Management Hero Unmasked
For comic book fans, X-men fans and all around superhero fans in the project management community a hero has been born: Hiro Nakamura, the 24 year old sales salary-man for Yamagoto Industries in Tokyo, Japan.
Hiro is one of the main characters on NBC’s new show, Heroes. He would be a fantastic project manager.
His communication, risk management or people skills haven’t yet been revealed. But in terms of raw assets, this guy would be value-add to any process or project -from six sigma, to ISO to best practices, Agile, whatever. His super powers transcend project management methodology. They are project management black-belt in the rough.
Hiro can move time with his mind. He is the ultimate master of project deadlines and timesheet costs. If a deliverable is coming in late or overbudget on labor costs -bam, now its not.
What’s more, since time and space are a single continuum, he figured out that if he holds the time variable constant, he can actually move himself instantly through space. He can teleport. Now, he’s only teleported himself, so far (from a subway in Tokyo to the middle of Time’s Square NYC -pretty impressive). It can’t be far off that he can teleport other objects. Or, other people.
More than cutting-down shipping costs, I bet there are some project managers who would really value this particular skill for other purposes. Someone getting on your nerves, management doesn’t get it -bam, their gone. And only you know where they went.
Saw the pilot of Heros last night. Saweet!
Best tv on tv.
Hiro Nakamura totally bests Night Crawler (though he should definately get some blue skin)
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