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The person who gets the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The Sure-thing Boat never gets far from the shore ― Dale Carnegie Read more →

A Compendium of Blog Posts on Project Management

Project management is a collection of techniques for proposing, planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating projects, combined with the management of the people executing the project. It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of... Read more →

Compendium of Blog Posts on Agile Software Development

In software development, agile is a set of practices intended to improve the effectiveness of software development professionals, teams, and organizations. It involves discovering requirements and developing solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer/end... Read more →

A Compendium of Monte Carlo Simulation Resources

Estimation of cost, duration, and technical performance activities is one of the most difficult aspects of project management. Monte Carlo simulations are based on the manipulation of random numbers to evaluate probable outcomes, with applicability in a variety of different... Read more →

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This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but... Read more →

Compendium of Blog Posts on Agile

In the software development domain, Agile is a set of practices intended to improve the effectiveness of software development professionals, teams, and organizations. It involves discovering requirements and developing solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and... Read more →

Compendium of Blog Posts on Estimating

Estimating is a critical part of project planning, involving a quantitative estimate of project costs, resources, or duration. Here's a starting summary of Estimating Want To Learn How To Estimate? Part Troisième And blogs that speak to estimating projects in... Read more →

Compendium of Blog Posts on Capabilities Based Planning

Capabilities-Based Planning is planning, under uncertainty, to provide capabilities suitable for a wide range of business challenges and circumstances, while working within an economic framework. Capabilities-based Planning emphasizes flexibility, adaptiveness, and robust capabilities, implying a modular building-block approach to Enterprise... Read more →

Compendium of Blog Posts on Root Cause Analysis

Root cause analysis (RCA) is the process of discovering the root causes of problems in order to identify appropriate solutions. Increasing the Probability of Project Success Naivety of the 5 Whys's (Updated) How to Think Like a Scientist How Do... Read more →

A Compendium of Blog Topics

Over the past 16 years of the Herding Cats blog, there have been a consistent collection of topics on topics critical the increasing the probability of project success. Here's the collection. It's incomplete but will be complete soon. Project Management... Read more →

Compendium of Blog Posts for Managing in the Presence of Risk

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister What is Risk? What is Risk Management? Six Common Pitfalls of Risk Management Retrospective Coherence - What Does That Mean? Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister... Read more →

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions - Admiral Grace Hopper Read more →

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Genius is eternal patience. ― Michelangelo Buonarroti Read more →

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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Selected Writings of Ralph... Read more →

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually, they will believe it - Adolf Hitler Read more →

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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military... Read more →

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This theory is too hard to solve! - Albert Einstein, Nov 1915 But even Einstein can be wrong. Karl Schwarzschild found the first non-trivial solution, to the General Relativity equation, in January 1916. Ahmed Almhiri's lecture tonight, speaking on The... Read more →

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Combating climate change - it's not optional. It's essential at EPA. We will move with a sense of urgency because we know what's at stake — US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAdmninistrator Michael Regan, announcing the resumption of the agency's... Read more →

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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules, – Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. – Alexander Pope (English Poet, 1688–1744) Read more →

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Don’t engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person - Winston Churchhill Read more →