Sat.Dec 30, 2017

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Principles of Cost and Schedule Estimating

Herding Cats

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. This assessment comes from research at the Institute for Defense Analyses (www.ida.org), where I sometimes work as a contractor in support of the Office of Secretary of Defense Performance Assessment and Root Cause Analysis.

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Trust vis Acceptance

Musings on Project Management

As I've written elsewhere, there is not really -- and can not be -- trust between strangers because trust requires a transfer (or exchange) of power based on a mutually shared belief that interests are entangled. To wit: you can trust me on this because I accept some responsibility for our mutual success And, I'll only do that if I know you well enough to believe in your competence, your.

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