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Entries Tagged as 'Scope'

Cost, Schedule, Performance

October 17th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There are other words, but there are three basic things to consider in projects and project management, so let’s review these basics. Time goes on. We have new methods and methodologies (let’s toss in a couple of extra syllables to trick in unknowing into thinking that we are thinking), but there are […]

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Tags: Calendar · Concepts · Management · Risk · Scope

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will do

August 31st, 2017 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips This paraphrase from Through the Looking Class continues to reign in systems development. The title of this post is a famous paraphrase from the classic Through the Looking Glass. I live it most days. The conversation goes something like this: Me: The system won’t do such-and-such. Builder: Of course not. It wasn’t […]

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Tags: Adults · Agility · Commitment · Communication · Scope · Systems · Work

But is that Your Job?

May 16th, 2016 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There are many almost insurmountable jobs out there. Are any of them, however, your job? I my current search for employment, I talk to people here and there about jobs. Several of the people I have met describe their jobs as the most impossible in the universe. The jobs they describe are […]

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Tags: Communication · Management · Scale · Scope