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By W. Scott Cameron Recently I have sat through a variety of project critiques and have asked the teams involved to articulate their lessons learned on their projects.

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.

By Denise Lee In November 2001, the APPL Knowledge Sharing Initiative introduced a new product, the Transfer Wisdom Workshop. The idea was to give practitioners at each of the NASA centers the opportunity to engage in a knowledge sharing activity.

By Maj. Norman H. Patnode Long ago I observed that people get more things done when they’re having fun. At the time, I had no idea why. Now I think I have an answer.

By Carol Ginty Advocating research is a little trickier than selling other projects at NASA. You can point to a satellite. You can point to a rocket. You can see the Shuttle and the International Space Station.

By Dr. Robert J. Shaw Early in my career, I did a lot of work in icing research. My research group had been trying to get money to upgrade our icing research tunnel, and it wasn’t going well.

By Tim Flores Like the rest of the country, I read the newspaper accounts of NASA’s Mars missions in the late ’90s.

By Dr. Alexander Laufer Chuck and Dave, two planning & scheduling engineers, meet at a project management conference and end up discussing the tricks of their trade.

By Ed Hoffman Remember the fairy tale, “The Three Little Pigs,” and how the first pig built a house of straw? Nice, light, cost-conscious straw.