Riding the Wave

Chapter 6Developing the Project Schedule

DOI: 10.1201/9781003201557-8

If you don’t choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Stephen Covey, Management Consultant and Author

This is a good reflection on projects carried out in an emergency or public safety organization. As we alluded to previously, the exigencies of the immediate work in an emergency or public safety agency often take precedence over project work, which often is an additional assignment to busy schedules. This is even more the case when working cross-functionally with different departments, agencies, or external partners, be they other governments, private, community, or other groups, many of which have competing priorities ...