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The course of conflict is not determined by the person who initiates but by the person who responds. Said by Duncan, in the third episode, "Silent Symphony" of the first season of the Amazon series "Mozart in the Jungle" and... Read more →

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Expert judgment is typically the crux of cost and schedule estimates but in the spectrum of the risk management process, quantification of expert judgment is the weakest area - Fred Raymond, Acquistion Review Quarterly - Spring 199., pp. 147-154 Making... Read more →

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I am used to thinking three to four months in advance, about what I must do, and I calculate for the worse. If I take so many precautions it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance... Read more →

Quote of the Day - Risk Pre-Mortem

A risk management premortem is an approach where the project manager and project stakeholders envision a future where the project has failed, and then work backward to determine the story and circumstances that could have led to the project failure... Read more →

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If a profession is to sharpen its skills, to develop new skills and applications, and to gain increasing respect and credibility, then theory and practice must be closely related – Martin Shrub Process and Practices without Principles are of little... Read more →

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“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Benjamin Franklin, American author, printer, political theorist, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Anyone suggesting Plans are of no value has failed to understand Ben's... Read more →

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards... Read more →

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The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right - Benjamin Franklin. Opening quote in the chapter "Agile Project Management Methods for IT Projects," Glen B. Alleman, in The Story of... Read more →

Fallacy of the Week

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. —Yogi Berra The notion of some in the agile community that Planning is a waste, just start coding and you'll discover the... Read more →

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Most Risk Management, starting with PMI's paradigm, is focused on what if. Instead, Risk Management must focus on If Then and work to reduce or remove the IF before focusing on the THEN. This is the Pre-Mortem paradigm of Risk... Read more →

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It all comes down to the ability to go up and down the ladder of abstraction, and being able to see both the big picture and the operational implications - Loizos Heracleous in "Strategic Thinking or Strategic Planning," in Long... Read more →

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“Software is so vital to military systems that, without it, most could not operate at all. Its importance to overall system performance and the generally accepted notion that software is always inadequate makes software the highest risk item and must... Read more →

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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... Read more →

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If a profession is to sharpen its skills, to develop new skills and applications, and to gain increasing respect and credibility, then their and practices must be closely related -- Martin Shrub Read more →

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Without Metrics you're just another guy with an opinion - Stephan Leschka, Hewlett Packard Read more →

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... suddenly a White Rabit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh... Read more →

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You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war - Napoleon Bonaparte Read more →

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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: For thereby some have entertained angels unawares - Heb 13:2 The painted quote surrounding the recessed ceiling in our dining room, where friends and family have come for the holidays Read more →

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"For God's sake, Mane, do not strike at what you are looking but at what you intend to hit" - Nikola Tesla's father admonition to his cross-eyed helper while chopping wood on the farm, My Inventions, Nikola Tesla, published in... Read more →

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Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing ‒Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, 6 part series in Electrical Experimenter, Feb-Jun... Read more →