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Sustainable Development Goal 15 “Life on Land” and Project Management

Green Project Management

This installment in our series on the SDGs focuses on #15 of 17, Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”. This SDG has 9 targets which you can read in detail. The short version is to protect all life […].

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Dashboards scale!

Musings on Project Management

Here's news you can use: Dashboards scale! Does this look like the dashboard for a 3-star running a zillion-billion dollar defense program? That's Vice Admiral David Venlet in the photo, and that dashboard is the way he likes it: low tech, but informative. Unfortunately for the Admiral-program manager, good and useful and timely program information does not necessarily beget good and.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. − Harrington Emerson. from an advertisement for The Book of Business , in Colliers: National Weekly, 1917 . When we hear a claim or conjecture about some method that fixes some named dysfunction, and that claim or conjecture clearly violates established principles, one of sever

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