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Quote of the Day

If I’m manipulating you, I’m trying to get you to do something that’s gonna benefit me. If I’m leading you, I’m trying to get you to do something that’s gonna benefit you, the team, that’s gonna benefit the mission. —... Read more →

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Politics Poli = many Tics = blood-sucking insects Politics = Many Blood-Sucking Incests Read more →

A Quick Summary of Risk Management

There's a conversation (of sorts) on Linked-In about Risk Management. Several topics are going on in parallel For risks, created by reducible uncertainty, direct corrective or preventive actions can be taken to reduce the probability that the risk will occur... Read more →

Applying Project Control Processes to Agile Development Projects

Known Success Factors From Government Research For Aerospace And Defense Programs Are Augmented With Agile Development Good Practices And The Enablers Of These Good Practices. Good Practices and Enablers of Good Practices, based on a report from Comptroller and Auditor... Read more →

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. - Neil De Grass Tyson Same can be said about many other Principles Microeconomics of decision making on projects Aleatory, Epistemic, and Ontological uncertainties... Read more →

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln Read more →

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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” —Goethe Without principles, practices and processes have no home on which they can be validated. Read more →

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That is not only not right; it is not even wrong Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch! Wolfgang Pauli Read more →

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The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa. - Richard Feynman Read more →

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement. - Arthur Conan Doyle Read more →

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Engineering problems will first manifest themselves in a schedule slip someplace. Generally, as I have learned since then, if you have technical problems someplace, or some kind of problem, it will manifest itself as a schedule slip. Then, it will... Read more →

Word of the Month

Agnotology, the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt Read more →

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed - Nietzsche Read more →

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell Read more →

Math for New Year

Thanks, Stephan Vandevoorde, Gent Belgium Read more →

#NoEstimates is Open Loop Control

Here's a summary of why Project Management, Risk Management, Estimating, Root Cause Analysis and other project management processes are a Closed Loop Control System Let's start with what is Closed Loop Control To successfully complete a project that meets established... Read more →

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so ‒ Douglas Adams Read more →

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When logic fails, the argument turns to slander - Socrates Read more →

Book of the Month

Bent Flyvbjerg's new book The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management arrived over Christmas. If you don't know of Bent's work, it's a source of must-read materials on managing projects. This text (from the back cover) is an important and certainly... Read more →

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Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy... Read more →