Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice is a framework for project management.
I live in a neighborhood with several Navy Captains. Both surface warfare and submarine warfare. All Naval Academy Grads. These men were hired to work at Rocky Flats, where I also worked.
The brilliance of the first CEO of Rocky Flats - documented in Making the Impossible Possible Leading Extraordinary Performance, was to hire a dozen or so direct reports who know how to get things done - without fail- every single day. Ship's Captains.
Surface and submarine warfare is an emerging situation inside of chaos - just like projects. The was Bob Card's brilliance. I need people who can follow the rules (nuclear safety has many rules) while at the same time manage in the presence of uncertainty.
While at a party last weekend, I was talking to my neighbor - skipper of the USS Virginia, about some issue at work. He reminded me of the theory to practice as the basis of our principles, process, and practices at Rocky Flats.
This books speaks to that process.
Any Process or Practice without a Theory is a House Built of Sand.
