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“Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown—the first instinct is to eliminate those distressing states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The first idea which explains that the unknown is in fact the known does so... Read more →

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Practices don't follow rules Rules follow emerging practices Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster 10 Years Later, Wayne Hale, Former NASA Space Shuttle Flight Director. Read more →

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If we understand what Capabilities are needed to produce business value or fulfill a mission, we can then identify what technical or operational requirements are needed to deliver those capabilities — Glen B. Alleman This is a closing quote from... Read more →

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“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” — Charlie Munger “We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your... Read more →

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I want to know God's thoughts. The rest is mere details - Albert Einstein Read more →

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Eyes on the Prize Our mind works by error-correction, but we don't want to know about our errors, we only have eyes for the goal. As Chairman Iacocca has said: we like to read about success but what we have... Read more →

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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing Read more →

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history — George Orwell Read more →

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Some people make careers out of being self-proclaimed experts (or even being over-enthusiastic amateurs); some of us have careers clearing up after them. - John Sprigs, Product and Service Assurance Professional Read more →

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If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion - Robert Heinlein Any conjecture, that any fix, for some claimed problem or dysfunction, without numbers to support the claim a fix for the dysfunction will... Read more →

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No systems can survive that doesn't serve a useful purpose - Harry Hillaker, Chief architect, General Dynamics, F-16, in Systems Architecting lecture, USC, November 1989 The classic architecting paradigm in technology projects is not the only way to create and... Read more →

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If speculative ideas cannot be tested against established principles to assess their validity, they are not credible. They don't even rise to the level of being wrong - Wolfgang Pauli Read more →

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“Anyone who expects a quick and easy solution to the multifaceted problem of resource estimation is going to be disappointed.” 1968, Alfred M. Pietrasanta at IBM System Research Institute Read more →

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Just exactly what is it we manage on projects if not risks? Project management IS risk management. The risk-aware manager can show you a substantial list of causal risks. He/she can tell you the likely cost in time or money... Read more →

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Accountability is a cultural attribute - Apollo Mission Program Manager Read more →

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When unimpeded by outside forces, we rapidly adapt to circumstances and succeed, but his perfect independence rarely exists - from Agility Language Read more →

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Risk is the Effect of Uncertainty on Objectives These uncertainties come in two forms: Reducible (Epistemic) and Irreducible (Aleatory). Managing in the presence requires making estimates of the magnitude and impact of these uncertainties. To conjecture that decisions can be... Read more →

Memorial Day 2019

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. - Joseph Rodman Drake Read more →

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Language is a powerful weapon, and in the hands of a skilled person, it can be used to manipulate others —Julius Caesar Read more →

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For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire. – Thucydides, 404 BC, the Peloponnesian War Read more →