Driving back to my hotel, I felt exhausted. I had just spent four days at the Defense Systems Management College, meeting with 12 small groups of program management students to discuss a case study they had just completed.
It’s amazing how the things you learn growing up stick with you. Take my introduction early in life with mentoring. I was introduced to this concept in a 1970s Saturday morning television show called “Shazam.”
ASK: You came to project management from a systems engineering background, correct?
Background Rapid Prototyping is a viable approach to product development on projects and initiatives whose success depends on a significant amount of customer input.
Background A mission’s success often depends on the performance of our suppliers. In a very real sense, suppliers perform relative to how well they are integrated within the larger team.
Put ‘N’ and ‘O’ together and you may just have the most powerful word in the English language. Since becoming a project manager, I have learned that using this word is often associated with project success.
Experience before age One of the team leads I worked with was a chief without braves.
I was a new engineer at one of NASA’s contractor sites, straight out of college and ready to conquer the Agency.
