005 - Ed Merrow of IPA on FEL as Primary Risk

What is the biggest risk in all projects? What are the consequences of 'fast-tracking'? What separates successful project managers from the rest? How are we doing as a project management community?  Ed Merrow, Founder and President of Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA), breaks it all down in this episode. You'll love listening to Ed's decades worth of insight and wisdom that comes from analyzing projects around the world across multiple industries.  Ed is sought out by Fortune 500 company executives and project professionals worldwide. He is the author of  Industrial Megaprojects (John Wiley & Sons, April 2011), and Leading Complex Projects (John Wiley & Sons, April 2018). He's sought out as a keynote speaker around the world and has been awarded the highest honors from AACE and CII's highest awards. He has testified the before the U.S. Congress and is a member on the topic of cost overruns. This is just a snippet of Ed's long and impressive career. You can read his full bio here.  You'll find the IPA website, Independent Project Analysis (IPA), to be full of great blogs, webinars, tools, and events. Credits: "Bass Walker" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Hard Boiled" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html