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Sunday, April 24, 2005
Gaming the Schedule -- Hal and Glen (and probably others) have beat me to mentioning Johanna Rothman's series on "Schedule Games," but I'll join in on the bandwagon and point y'all toward it as well. The first four include...
"Schedule Chicken" is one of my favorites. If you've ever seen the HBO Series "From the Earth to the Moon," about the Apollo program, you might remember what was my favorite episode -- the one about the Grumman engineers building the lunar lander. There's a great scene in which everyone goes around the table saying "Sure, my group's on track." until one admits the reality of needing some more time, at which point everyone then backtracks, saying, "Well, since Joe will need more time, we could use it to..." There's other PM wisdom and reality spread out in that episode. Check it out if you get a chance.
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