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Continuous Risk Management

By Phil Sabelhaus Risk identification is an ongoing activity that takes place during the routine project workflow.

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Three Insights About Change

By Terry Little Recently, I changed jobs. I moved from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where I had worked for 30 years managing programs, to a newly created job in Washington, D.C. as the Director of the Air Force Acquisition Center of Excellence (whatever that means!).

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A Big Raise, A Promotion, Or…

By W. Scott Cameron I recently got an e-mail requesting nominations for our 11th Capital Management Leadership and Mastery (L&M) Award program.

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Is There a Perfect Organization?

By Julie Schonfeld When I was 10 years old, I decided I was going to be the first woman astronaut.

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Less of Me

By Tim Owen Let’s be frank, things just weren’t working out. The project was a microgravity experiment that was supposed to be ready for launch in August 2000.

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When My Name Suddenly Was “Murphy”

By David Mitchell The 1995-96 timeframe was a busy period for NASA’s Delta II missions. Several spacecraft were slated for launch.

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Boiling Point

By Michael C. Jansen One of my first experiences as a journeyman engineer paralleled Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.

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Loss and Recovery

By Ken Schwer As I stood harnessed in the bucket truck above the Taurus launch vehicle three days before launch, all the difficulties, successes, and memories of this mission came to mind.

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A “Sweet 16” Of Rules About Teamwork

By Dr. Alexander Laufer The following “Sweet 16” rules included here derive from a longer paper by APPL Director Dr. Edward Hoffman and myself titled “99 Rules for Managing Faster, Better, Cheaper Projects.”

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