Lessons Learned From Seattle’s Tunneling Project
Megaprojects in the past 70 years have consistently come in over budget while delivering less than half of their promised monetary benefit.
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Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way
For advanced economies, innovation requires pushing on the frontiers of science and technology. That can’t happen without heavy government funding for basic research … The Internet and the Global Positioning System (GPS) are only two of the crucial technologies that originated as projects of the...
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If It’s Common To Do Then Maybe We Should Not Do It
How much trickery is legal?
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The Boss Will Solve Our Problems
You’d think the government would make this type of thing stop … but years later, these scams still exist.
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It’s The Idea, Not The Money That Brings Success
In no case did we ever need more money for a project to succeed.
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Know When Not To Fight
Frequently, what government contracting officers were requesting was ridiculous.
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Can We Be Flat Out Wrong Two Weeks Before Project Completion?
I thought I was getting the best information from the best experts, but clearly that didn’t go well. If I had a magic wand ....
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Don’t Let Someone Else Do Your Thinking For You
Thank you, but I’ll make my own decisions.
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Managing By Using The Tip Of The Iceberg
Oh boy, I think. Here we go again. We had a problem. When we completed and delivered our last project, our status showed we had zero outstanding defects.
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Did The Tech Giants Botch Obamacare?
Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.
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Experts Can Save The Day, But Not For The Reasons We Expect
Outside of the traditional government pipelines, talented individuals are waiting and willing to help [to save Obamacare].
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Project Management Insights From The War On Dementia
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Let’s do drugs and forget about diet and exercise. Who wants to avoid problems? They pay us big bucks to fix them!
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Project Management Insights From Detroit’s Bankruptcy
Detroit’s pensions are underfunded by as much as $3.5 billion in part because of unrealistic assumptions of 8 percent annual investment returns. Unrealistic!?
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Get The Change Right!
Changing an organization is often the real effort behind any project. Here are three phases to change I’ve experienced and how they’ve helped me to succeed.
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Why We Can Never Make Just One Change As A Project Manager
Purchase this Project Management Tool and you will never deliver a project late again! Maybe, but only if we first change just a few more things.
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