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This quote appeared in Skeptical Science as an environmental philosophy articulated in an ancient Native American proverb: Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do... Read more →

10 Steps to Charting a Project

These 10 tips come from a Baseline magazine article. But in the article, there were no substantial actions or expected outcomes. Starting with the 10 tips, here's how to put them to work. Step 1 – Make it a Two-Stage... Read more →

Relations Between PM, SE and EVM

Measures of Effectiveness (MoE) Operational measures of success that are closely related to the achievements of the mission or operational objectives evaluated in the operational environment, under a specific set of conditions. Measures of Effectiveness: Are stated in units meaningful... Read more →

Compendium of Resources for Agile Project Management and Earned Value Management

The growing importance of quickly and affordably delivering software intensive systems requires programs to swiftly react to changing demands of the operational environment and has led to an increased focus on capability-based planning and iterative product development. Capability based planning... Read more →

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If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. — Hannah Arendt Read more →

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Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants... Read more →

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"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings." - Robert Benchley Read more →

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21 Suggestions for Success – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more... Read more →

Presentations, White Papers, and Journal Articles

Conference Briefings, Training Materials, & Master Classes as the Basis of Successfully Managing Traditional & Agile Complex System of Systems Even experienced project managers are not immune to common reasons for project failure. Poor time and budget performance, failure to... Read more →

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Adopt the Pace of Nature: Her Secret is Patience - Ralph Waldo Emerson Read more →

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The tyranny of requirements is independent of the project management methodology “If someone is trying to contract for a system, and they can properly identify all the necessary ‘requirements’, then it makes sense to do so. The preference then usually... Read more →

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The tyranny of requirements is independent of the project management methodology “If someone is trying to contract for a system, and they can properly identify all the necessary ‘requirements’, then it makes sense to do so. The preference then usually... Read more →

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Qui enim teneat causas rerum futurarum, idem necesse est omnia teneat quae futura sint. Quod cum nem… – Cicero,De Divinatione, Liber primus, LVI, 127 [Roughly, He who knows the causes will understand the future, except no-one but god possesses such... Read more →

A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered in the development and deployment of Software-Intensive Systems of Systems (SISoS) using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose... Read more →

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I am used to thinking three or four months in advance, about what I must do, and I calculate on the worst. If I take so many precautions, it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance.... Read more →

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“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” - Alexander Pope Read more →

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Our institutions are failing because they are disobeying laws of effective organization which their administrators do not know about, to which indeed their cultural mind is closed, because they contend that there exists and can exist no science competent to... Read more →

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Nessuna humana investigazione si dimandara vera scienzia s'essa non passa per le mathematoche dimomstrazione No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically - Leonardo da Vinci - 1452 - 1519 Read more →

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We bid you, then, who are priests in the realm of nature, to press on your labors with all vigor. See to it that mankind is not forever mocked by a philosophy empty, superficial, false, and uselessly subtle. Your heritage... Read more →

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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing the evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go into your library and read every book. - Dwight Eisenhower Read more →