By Terry Little Prelude to a Mistake I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my career, but the one that I think of as providing the greatest learning opportunities occurred while I was program manager of a large Department of Defense (DoD) project designated by Congress as an acquisition reform program.
By Terry Little Recently I chaired a panel interviewing candidates to fill an S.E.S. position within the Missile Defense Agency.
By Terry Little I have led six major defense acquisition programs during my civil service career.
By Terry Little The traditional view of career development in the government goes something like this: Start your career as a functional apprentice.
By Terry Little For as long as I can remember, we in the Department of Defense have based our development programs on user requirements.
By Terry Little My experience, both first- and second-hand, has been that people have misused prototyping almost as often as they have used it wisely.
By Terry Little Contrary to what my wife would say, I don’t watch much television. I do, however, regularly watch one show on the Learning Channel—the reality series called Trauma: Life in the E.R.
A Conversation with W. Scott Cameron and Terry Little We’re all interested in quality, but if we can’t deliver a project on time, quality becomes a moot point.
By Terry Little In our business we have all kinds of reviews: financial reviews, strategy reviews, technical reviews, test reviews, design reviews, baseline reviews, etc., etc. I hate them all — every last one.
