By Jerry Madden From Jerry Madden’s “100 Lessons Learned for Project Managers” “Not all successful managers are competent and not all failed managers are incompetent,” reads Jerry Madden’s lesson #21.
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 W. Scott Cameron “Seductive” is a word rarely associated with project management. An expression like “24/7,” on the other hand, is all too familiar.
By Claire Smith I come from a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania — from a culture and a community where in order to get your needs met, you had to be an activist.
By Dr. Kenneth L. Atkins I served nine years in the Air Force, and I had the good fortune to become a pilot during that time.
By Dave Stickel A few years ago, I was managing a project whose scope included the addition of several new unit operations to existing production lines.
By Dan Gundo Recently, I worked on creating a one-of-a-kind device for a Space Station group studying exercise physiology at another NASA Center.
By James Barrowman “It’s the wrong thing to be doing,” I told the Director of Engineering, trying to head off a last-minute change in our X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) project.
By Christian Zazzali I build a project a hundred times in my head before we start work on it. I put formal plans into writing, but I also try to work through every scenario I can think of in advance to have everything lined up like dominoes, with all the details in place.
