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Saturday, August 25, 2001
For those interested in both project management and Peter Senge's system models, Gene Bellinger's page on Project Systems might be an interesting perusal. It contains the building of a neat system diagram on the vicious cycles that a project in trouble can get into. Starting with "schedule pressure," one can follow the loops to more schedule pressure. The one thing the article doesn't get into however is the source of initial schedule pressure.
trying to put 10 pound of projects through a 5 pound project pipeline and the effects of Parkinson's Law on the ability to keep project schedules "on track."
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