Dan Ward is one of my new favorite Blogs. Dan is a frequent author in the Defense Journal AT&L. His F.I.S.T. is Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, and Tiny. I've restated them here for effect: A project leader’s influence is inversely proportional to the project’s budget and schedule Creative constraints foster... 

Media beat-ups around the Apple iPad continue. This headline “Virtual teardown reveals great iPad rip-off” (see here) would be funny if it wasn’t so misguided. The story claims the following: - Apple is perhaps costing US$229.35 to produce (a ridiculously specific number for what is simply an estimate... 

I'm working two programs in parallel – a really bad idea by the way. One is a DOE R&D project. The other is a DoD integrated battle management system. Working in these domains produces a bias towards what is means when someone says “project management.” This is an ongoing discussion for several...