Herding Cats

Book of the Month

Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering makes the case for improving program performance by integrating the roles, activities, and outcomes of Program Managers and Systems Engineers. I work in domains, where Systems Engineering is a critical success factor. I work... Read more →

All Ideas Must Be Critically Examined

The creation of solutions that solve actual problems depends on a critical assessment of those solutions in the context of Principles, Processes, and Practices.When critics do their job properly, the exchange of ideas can take place in a meaningful manner.... Read more →

Behavioural Economics, Estimating, and Decision Making in Presence of Uncertainty

Behavioral Economics studies the effects of psychological, social, cognitive, and emotional factors on the economic decisions of individuals and organization and the consequences of prices, returns, and resource allocation, of the impact of different kinds of behavior, in different environments... Read more →

Process is King Part 2

I wrote a post about Process is King a few years ago. Came across a few posts about how people trump process. That may be for small de minimus work efforts. But those same voices conjecturing people come first -... Read more →