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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln Read more →

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The pursuit of operational effectiveness is seductive because it is concrete and actionable. Caught up in the race for operational effectiveness, many managers simply do not understand the need to have a strategy. – Dr. Michael E. Porter – Professor... Read more →

Compendium of Briefings, Papers, and Presentations

This web page contains presentations, formal briefings, papers, and workshops with the Principles, Processes, and Practices needed to increase the probability of project success in any domain, with any methods, or any tools With the previous summary in Compendium for... Read more →

Some Timeless Advice

Most of what we know today, apply today, was known by the Greeks, including these lessons † Lead from the front ‒ According to ancient Greeks, if you want your team members to give their 100%, then you will have... Read more →

Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister

Risk management deals with issues of uncertainty. Risk Management aims to reduce uncertainty by envisioning possible scenarios and making forecasts (estimates of future outcomes based on data or past performance) on the basis of what it is considered probable within... Read more →

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Key to Success? Keep going till you get it right. Then keep going further till you can't get it wrong. Read more →

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Art is a game played against chaos, death, and entropy. It asserts and reasserts those values which hold off dissolution; it rediscovers, generation by generation, what is necessary to humanness. - John Gardner Read more →

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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 →

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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 →