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"What PMI should be doing if they want to advance the knowledge of Project Management further is to commission some experiments to validate the claims which are implicit in the PMBOK. Rather than footnoting (if they even do that) conflicting schools of thought, they should mount an active challenge and seek to design experiments which validate - or invalidate - the positions that are implicit in their categorization of 'best' practices."
But then their software and consultant members might have to rely on more that individual, hard-to-repeat case studies to promote their wares. Note this can apply to other professional societies and organizations, including TOCICO, as well. We're all good at telling stories - Jack's anecdotes - and we're also all too willing to extrapolate our stories to other situations.
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