31 December 2020 - project management

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How to Destroy Projects

If you allocate resources, you want to know the full plan ahead of time so you can allocate efficiently. If you carry out a plan, you want to delay uncertain decisions, because as you continue, you learn more and can make better decisions. Project management means doing both, and resolving the tension; to do only one is fatal. That is why a legislature must never, never decide on budgets.

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Or a management committee.

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