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The Dig Ever feel like you’re getting gazumped when your project turns out to be more important than people thought? Fed up of senior project managers steaming in with their size-12s, telling you how to do things? Your hero might just be Basil Brown, writes Richard Young
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etflix’s The Dig has been one of the streaming hits of the pandemic. Our project hero is Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), a farmer’s son and experienced excavator who’s hired in 1939 by landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan – the project sponsor) to explore the Saxon archaeological site Sutton Hoo, which lies in her garden in Suffolk. The project management lessons start from the outset. The first? Get to the point. Edith’s committed to the project but not terribly knowledgeable. She knows what she wants – the mounds explored – but apart from that, she’s
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