Media Snapshot
The 2002 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympics took five years to plan
and cost more than $1.9 billion. PMI awarded the Salt Lake Organizing
Committee (SLOC) the Project of the Year award for delivering world-class
games.
Four years before the Games began, the SLOC used a Primavera softwarebased
system with a cascading color-coded WBS to integrate planning… The
SLOC also used an Executive Roadmap, a one-page list of the top 100
Games-wide activities, to keep executives apprised of progress. Activities
were tied to detailed project information within each department’s
schedule. A 90-day highlighter showed which managers were accountable
for each integrated activity.
Fraser Bullock, SLOC Chief Operating Officer and Chief, said, “We knew
when we were on and off schedule and where we had to apply additional
resources. The interrelation of the functions meant they could not run in
isolation—it was a smoothly running machine.”