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Quote of the Day

... the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo... Read more →

Capabilities Based Planning (Wright Brothers)

Capabilities Based Planning provides a description of what Done looks like in units of measure meaningful to the decision-makers. These measures include Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) - Operational measures of success that are closely related to the achievements of the... Read more →

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So we keep asking, over and over, Until a handful of earth Stops out mouths ― But is that an answer? Heinrich Heine, Lazarus, 1854 Many in our project management domains have a solution looking for a problem to solve.... Read more →

Book of the Decade

It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy. It is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's... Read more →

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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say the only the educated can be free, Epictetus, Discourses. Read more →

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Your Motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday Now get with it! - Noel Coward, English Actor, Dramatist and Song Writer (1899 - 1973) Read more →

Book of the Month

In the presence of the Pseudoscience and willful ignorance of science in our current leadership, here are two books that should be read by everyone with skin in the game of being an informed citizen of the nation and the... Read more →

Quote of the Day

Excellence in planning will be correctness in regard to the means (to sympheron) to the end (to telos), of which (ov) practical reason is the true apprehension (hypothesis). ― Aristotle says in Nicomachean Ethics. If we hear anyone, in any... Read more →

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A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such -... Read more →

Program Management Office Services

Just watched a webinar on Increasing Program Management Office Collaboration to Improve IT Portfolio Management from www.qsm.com. Here's a summary of how we've installed and operated Progam Management Offices in a variety of domains, from Federal Agencies to commercial firms... Read more →

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True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing they replaced reality - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stange Pilgrims 1992 Read more →

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[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ― Charles Darwin, Introduction, The... Read more →

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceed sciences which may be called 'sciences as one would'. For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he... Read more →

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Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvelous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by... Read more →

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2020 is like looking both ways as you cross the street and as you step off the curb you get hit by an airplane falling from the sky. Read more →

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Common sense has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively, it seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful projects is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately,... Read more →

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[P]ublic education in science has been withering in recent years. At the same time, activities of superstition and ignorance have been growing, and antiscience and pseudoscience cases have become frequent. Therefore, effective measures must be applied as soon as possible... Read more →

Quote of the Day

... where ignorance is bliss, "Tis folly to be wise - Thomas Gray This dilemma of modern times is better understood with It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as... Read more →

The Economics of Strategy

It's a popular phrase in the agile community to speak about value. And to use this notion as the basis of decision making around tools, processes, and delivered software. Trouble is when we hear words like estimates provide no value,... Read more →

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Be a free thinker. We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. Don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. ― Richard Feynman Read more →