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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.— Andre Gide 1869–1951 Read more →

Book(s) of the Month

This book was given to me early in my career by a mentor. It makes a clear and concise statement ... If you're working in a dysfunctional organization and you're unable to make the needed improvements to a level that... Read more →

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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. ― Anonymous Read more →

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as long as we stay a bunch of squabbling tribes, we will remain a Silly People - paraphrased by Lawrence of Arabia Read more →

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There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. - Richard Buckminster Fuller (US engineer and architect, 1895-1983) I was fortunate to be present in the studio when Buckminster Fuller was being interviewed on the... Read more →

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts - Mark Twain Read more →

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I am amused, I said, at your fear of the world, which makes you guard against the appliance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of... Read more →

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Most of us are not interested in greatness, just in common, ordinary, everyday achievement - Henry Million, MOT Professor, Director of the American Academy in Rome Read more →

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. - Benjamin Franklin Read more →

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Like a snake who must keep swimming to live, a politician must keep his lips continuously moving. - the opening of Chapter 6, Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, commenting on the General who he worked with in Vietnam and now worked... Read more →

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The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. - William Wordsworth (1770–1850) Read more →

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And no matter where you go or what you do, you will be inextricably bound to a brotherhood that spans continents and generations. Every hearth that bears the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is home, every arm being that brand brings... Read more →

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Don’t let the tool control the hand that uses it. – Lt Gen H. H. Driessnack, USAF When we hear about solutions looking for problems to solve, think of General Driessnack's advice. Find the problem first. Then find the corrective... Read more →

Increasing the Probability of Program Succes

Cost and schedule growth for any project or program is created when there are: Unrealistic technical performance expectations, Unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, Inadequate risk assessments, and Unanticipated technical issues, all based on poorly performed and ineffective risk management. Each... Read more →

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We pretend that technology, our technology, is something of a life force, a will, and a thrust of its own, on which we can blame all, with which we can explain all, and is the end by means of which... Read more →

A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on a software-intensive system of systems (SISoS) using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on... Read more →

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A mind once expanded never regains the same shape. — Adapted from Oliver Wendell Holmes Read more →

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Working together to accomplish great things will always be a part of the human experience and success depends on our people skills and individual courage to confront group consensus.—Irving Janis When we hear about self-organized teams and team consensus, and... Read more →

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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. —Richard Wright Evidence is data that supports our conclusions. To be effective evidence must be void of opinion and emotions. Evidence provides value to a problem-solving process when it... Read more →

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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. —Ayn Rand Causal relationships are defined by a cause-and-effect principle. Understanding these principles creates the structure of reality where we can be responsible for our success. To... Read more →