The Italian Job Film Analysis

The Italian Job (2003) Film Analysis: Supporting Project Management Processes & Topics

Answer the following questions:

1. Name the different CAST names (by first name and last name); match them with the CHARACTER names.

2. Discuss each character’s relevance in the story. What PURPOSE did each character serve to the PLOT line and activities in the story?

3. Name the different TERMS and TECHNOLOGIES you hear in this movie. Name as many technologies as possible and provide a brief description of each.

4. You will hear about specific TOOLS, TECHNIQUES, and METHODS for cracking safes, breaking into buildings, surveillance, communications, video, image capture, software, mechanical aspects to automobiles and transportation.

5. What do you think pushed Stella Bridger to risk her career to help the team recover the gold? Do you think there was more than just revenge motivating Stella to assist?

6. What were the methods used to determine SCHEDULING ACTIVIITES in the movie? Be extremely precise in your description. Name several exact techniques that the characters used to schedule their activities in fine detail, discuss those techniques in some detail.

7. Below you will find a list of (42) PROJECT MANAGEMENT TERMINOLOGY items that are intended for use during the viewing of The Italian Job.

1. Review the PM terms list.
2. Define each PM term (briefly, using the textbook or web)
3. Link each PM term to in incident in the film (if possible, no matter how small)
   

Project Management Terminology

1. Cause and effect diagrams
2. Checklist
3. Contingency Plans
4. Deliverable
5. Ethics
6. Executing Processes
7. External Dependencies
8. Extrinsic Plans
9. Feeding Buffers
10. Flowcharts
11. Forcing Mode
12. Forecasts
13. Initiating Processes
14. Integrated Change Control
15. Issue
16. Issue Log
17. Kick-off Meeting
18. Leader
19. Mandatory Dependencies
20. Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs
21. Maturity Model
22. Milestone
23. Monitoring and controlling processes
24. Multitasking
25. Murphy’s Law
26. Opportunities
27. Organizational process asset
28. Over-allocation
29. Parkinson’s Law
30. Planning Processes
31. Post-mortem
32. Progress Reports
33. Project Manager
34. Risk
35. Root cause
36. Scope creep
37. Slipped Milestone
38. Stakeholders
39. Team Contract
40. Triggers
41. Work Breakdown Structure
42. Workarounds