Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure

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From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:16

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In <C0Cu9q.Bz9@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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).

Doesn't surprise me.  From my experience, that seems to be the 
main way they're still used today.

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