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Increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is Rapid - Seneca
A Compendium of Resources for Applying Design Structure Matrix to Complex System of Systems | Mark As Read |
Complexity is an ever-present obstacle in any business. Managing complex systems is a core competency to successfully run any business. The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) is a simple tool to perform both the analysis and the management of complex systems....
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Always plan ahead. It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark. - Cardinal Richard Cushing Just a reminder for all those agilest who wince at a Release Plan.
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21 Suggestions for Success from H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent Give people more...
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"If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss on how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led...
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. ... The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. John von Neumann
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire - Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal - Edgar J. Mohn
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A lie has speed, but truth has endurance - Edger. J. Mohn
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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine Mike Murdock
Compendium of Resources for Digital Twins, Model-Based Systems Engineering and Integrated Program Performance Management | Mark As Read |
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of...
Compendium of Resources for Integrated Master Plan / Integrated Master Schedule | Mark As Read |
The Integrated Master Plan (IMP) is a hierarchical collection of Program Events (PE), with each event supported by Significant Accomplishments (SA), and each SA is based on satisfying Accomplishment Criteria (AC). The Integrated Master Scheule (IMS) is an integrated, networked...
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The Dose Makes the Poison - Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever...
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The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know. Consequently, reasoning is good if it be such as to give a true conclusion from true premises,...
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When several hypotheses are presented to our mind which we believe to be mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but about which we know nothing further, we distribute our belief equally among them .... This being admitted as an account of the...
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To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is and of what is not that it is not is true. --...
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Clay is molded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing... Thus taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not Tao Te Ching, Chapter...
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It is counterproductive to have an agile development process if you dont have an agile product architecture - Rick Dove, Parshift.com
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Do not like some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and rocky way to heaven, While, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And heeds not his own counsel. Hamlet
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use - Soren Kierkegaard
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Darwin's dangerous idea is the belief that evolution, a mindless, mechanistic, purposeless process, gave rise to the single, branching tree of life and, further, that this process eliminates the need for invoking an intelligent God as the source of the...
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"You cannot have an execution culture without robust dialog one that brings reality to the surface through openness, candor, and informality. Intense debate brings up all sides of an issue, even if it makes people uncomfortable." ... from ...
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Here, Cleanthes, I find myself at ease in my argument. Here I triumph. Formerly, when we argued concerning the natural attributes of intelligence and design, I needed all my skeptical and metaphysical subtlety to elude your grasp. In many views...
A Compendium of Blog Posts on Earned Value Management | Mark As Read |
Earned Value Management is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. This objective manner starts with defining the planned Physical Percent Complete for a product or service, at a planned time, with the...
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The person who gets the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The Sure-thing Boat never gets far from the shore Dale Carnegie
A Compendium of Blog Posts on Project Management | Mark As Read |
Project management is a collection of techniques for proposing, planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating projects, combined with the management of the people executing the project. It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of...
Compendium of Blog Posts on Agile Software Development | Mark As Read |
In software development, agile is a set of practices intended to improve the effectiveness of software development professionals, teams, and organizations. It involves discovering requirements and developing solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer/end...
A Compendium of Monte Carlo Simulation Resources | Mark As Read |
Monte Carlo Simulation is a multiple probability simulation mathematical technique, used to estimate the possible outcomes of an uncertain event. The Monte Carlo Method was invented by John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam during World War II to improve decision-making...
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This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but...
Compendium of Blog Posts on Agile | Mark As Read |
In the software development domain, Agile is a set of practices intended to improve the effectiveness of software development professionals, teams, and organizations. It involves discovering requirements and developing solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and...
Compendium of Blog Posts on Estimating | Mark As Read |
Project Estimating. Estimating is a critical part of project planning, involving a quantitative estimate of project costs, resources, or duration. The Economics of Strategy Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainty Creates Risk to Project Success How Do Projects Fail? Let Us Count...
Compendium of Blog Posts on Capabilities Based Planning | Mark As Read |
Capability-based planning focuses on the planning, engineering, and delivery of strategic business capabilities to the enterprise. It is business-driven and business-led and combines the requisite efforts of all lines of business to achieve the desired capability. Capability-based planning accommodates most,...
Compendium of Blog Posts Root Cause Analysis | Mark As Read |
Root cause analysis (RCA) is the process of discovering the root causes of problems in order to identify appropriate solutions. Increasing the Probability of Project Success Naivety of the 5 Whys's (Updated) How to Think Like a Scientist How Do...
A Compendium of Blog Topics | Mark As Read |
Over the past 16 years of the Herding Cats blog, there have been a consistent collection of topics that are collected here Risk Management - is the critical success factor for project success. Capabilities, requirements, cost, and schedule planning and...
Compendium of Blog Topics for Increasing Probability of Project Success | Mark As Read |
This is a collection of ever-expanding Blog posts on topics critical to increasing the probability of project success. Risk Management Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister What is Risk? What is Risk Management? Six Common Pitfalls...
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert iopnions - Admiral Grace Hopper
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Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Selected Writings of Ralph...
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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually, they will believe it - Adolf Hitler
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military...
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This theory is too hard to solve! - Albert Einstein, Nov 1915 But even Einstein can be wrong. Karl Schwarzschild found the first non-trivial solution, to the General Relativity equation, in January 1916. Ahmed Almhiri's lecture tonight, speaking on The...
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Combating climate change - it's not optional. It's essential at EPA. We will move with a sense of urgency because we know what's at stake US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SAdmninistrator Michael Regan, announcing the resumption of the agency's...
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope (English Poet, 16881744)
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Dont engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person - Winston Churchhill
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." - Isaac Asimov
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -- Mark Twain
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not...
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"Forward, the Light Brigade! Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the...
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If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long - Albert Einstein
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