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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 →

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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 →

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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit, millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of a hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman word; an obscure monk like Luther... Read more →

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Increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is Rapid - Seneca Read more →

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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong — H. L. Mencken Read more →

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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Any Rand Read more →

A Compendium of Resources for Applying Design Structure Matrix to Complex System of Systems

Complexity is an ever-present obstacle in any business. Managing complex systems is a core competency to successfully run any business. The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) is a simple tool to perform both the analysis and the management of complex systems.... Read more →

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“Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” - Cardinal Richard Cushing Just a reminder for all those agilest who wince at a Release Plan. Read more →

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21 Suggestions for Success from 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 →

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"If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss on how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led... Read more →

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. ... The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. — John von Neumann Read more →