A framework for project management includes the project stakeholders (Clooney who administers and coordinates to the needs and problems of the job), project management areas that includes project integration management (each of Ocean’s staff has their own forte, each individual has his own skill that is unique, he would be like a fish outside of water if he is given a task that he doesn’t know), scope (the team must know the area and diversity of the project they are handling), time (the timing is very important, a few moments delay will not get the job done), quality (inefficiency equals inferior output, the risk of getting caught is highly probable), cost (with the type of establishment they are robbing, they have to shell out a huge amount of money, because they are dealing with a vault with updated in security lock technology), human resources (Ocean has eleven of the finest crook), risk and procurement management (each must have his own discipline so they got something to hold on to attain success).
Moreover, the project life cycle is said to be a collection of phases. The first phase is planning and determining the objectives of the project. In the movie, it is to get rich and get back at the man who stole Ocean’s wife’s heart. Next is looking for the right person/s for a/some particular type of job/s. But most of the time it is fun to work with people whom you really know and know that gets the job done. This willingness is important in letting a person in to the team. The film itself ran at a series of short scenes that never are given time to build, never involve us. The film postulates that Danny and Rusty Ryan are old partners in crime, and there is a subtle scene early on when Danny walks in on Rusty's class in poker for Hollywood actors, and Rusty deals a cold deck to let Danny pick up some cash from the marks. But somehow the director lets even that simple a setup get away from him by losing his focus on what's important for us in the audience to see. With such a large cast, there's not a lot of room for character development, so the movie instead gives you scenes that establish what everyone is like. Each of the team is given tasks in a particular time; some work ahead, some after a task has been completed, while others alongside another task. All involves gathering of data to ensure that every little detail is perfect when the time comes. Well, with a heist film the audience must believe that there is a reasonable possibility of success, if all plans are followed and everyone does his job. The tension comes when something goes wrong, when someone is betrayed, when the clockwork plan is somehow thrown off track. Here, nothing goes wrong and so the film becomes an endless stringing-together of actions leading to the heist. That is not always true with the real world, some are bound to succeed, and some are bound to fail.
Things work because plans are thought-out to minute details. The stakeholder should see to it that the plan is flexible and subject to change. Majority of the project’s budget must be spent on project plan execution. In the movie, eavesdropping on security personnel on cafeterias; checking in to the casino’s suite; buying appropriate clothes for occasions and the like are essential to gather information and lay out execution sites for the project to succeed. The outlines of the moves are long and well established: the location of the impenetrable targets; the inside information; the voice-over as we see guards going about their work; and the plan with the split-second timing. The movie even includes an elaborate full-scale mock-up of the strong room used by the three casinos, leading to such practical questions as how, why, where and when. Changes do occur outside of the team’s control, and decisions made regarding these changes has the capacity to be integrated and must be beneficial to the project.
The execution itself is a milestone because it requires split second and accurate timing. It has zero duration and is on the final phase of the heist. It would either make or break the team. If plans don’t miscarry, each of them would be ten million dollars richer.
In every project there has to have logic and this element seems to be one thing that this movie doesn’t have. The casino owner must have utilized the finest gadgets and machineries to keep his millions and the best security people to guard it but the team has been able to steal it under his nose although the plan seem to be not as good as other well-planned heist movie.
As a whole the movie have somehow followed the basic project procedures, despite some loopholes in the script. It will take each member of Ocean to decide his path, weather to fail or succeed in opening and stealing Garcia’s riches. In projects like this one, it includes sacrifices like what George Clooney did at the end of the movie. A team leader would usually take fault of what the team has done wrong and make better result at the end because leaders are the example to his / her subordinates and they have a clear view of what he / she wants to happen. In doing so, the project is in good hands. George Clooney had a clear view on what he really want to happen, to claim what is rightfully his; and that is Tess, played by Julia Roberts. He sacrifice his freedom by letting Garcia know Clooney was part of the robbery incident, through the video cameras around them, he showed Tess how he loved her so much and he was willing to go back to prison just to prove Tess his love to her. After all, Clooney was only in prison 6 months and got his share of money. This writer finds and rates the movie 10 being the highest as a dismal 6 but for me I could give a 7.
