A project management perspective is very appropriate. Obviously, key considerations are scope and
risk. The scope is global and a lot of
countries did not understand that at the start of the outbreak. A risk plan is what the disease control
centers are using to control proliferation.
There is also an ongoing assessment of the fatality percentage, another
part of analyzing risk. Similar to the
need in project management, the process to assess and control the outbreak
needs to use AI tools in order to increase success. Data mining can be used to find correlations
that can quickly identify and shut down locations that are most susceptible to
spreading the virus. Machine learning
tools can be used to create a model of critical factors that helped to spread
or to prevent contamination. All of this will undoubtedly be included in a
lessons learned document.