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Article #7002Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 00:20
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 00:20
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In article <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>I've got news for you, Gary. Those Pert charts that you are
>so fond of were invented for (boo, hiss!) success-oriented
>Polaris-missile program. Good engineers always expect problems...
What they don't tell you in the textbooks is that although Pert charts
were indeed invented for Polaris, they *weren't* used to manage it --
they were used to intimidate assorted Washington kibitzers, keeping
them at arms length from the people who actually ran the project
(in the traditional way, using competence and judgement rather than
Pert charts).
--
"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure Message-ID: <C0Cu9q.Bz9@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:20:12 GMT References: <19519.2b2f721a@levels.unisa.edu.au> <1992Dec28.163339.25647@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725659270@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.164516.10926@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14