Pacelli, L., The Project Management Advisor. 18 Major Project Screw Ups, and How to Cut Them Off at the Pass, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ, USA, 2004

I bought this book off the web and I couldn't "look inside" so I didn't really know what I was getting. I was surprised to see it was a fairly small book in terms of pages. But the size belies its value I suspect.

Lonnie Pacelli has put together a tight little package of wisdom, based it would seem on many of his experiences at Accenture and later Microsoft Corporation. He has 18 "screw ups" to share. ....read more

Rich, B.R. and Janos, Y., Skunk Works, Little Brown and Company, New York, 1994

I have had this book in my library for quite some time and although I've browsed it before, I recently had the opportunity to actually read it. Why I didn't read it earlier, I just don't know because it is just so full of stories and wisdom on many levels.

For those who don't know - the Skunk Works were (are still?) a top secret Lockheed shop for the design, development and manufacture of advanced and innovative aerospace systems.

This is the third in my series on scheduling (I spoke about the knowledge required to successfully schedule in my last blog) and I would like to cover what I perceive as the two broad ways schedules are used - namely for planning and/or managing an effort.

My experience tells me that knowledge issues in schedule management fall into a number of broad areas including understanding the concepts, understanding the tools, long term versus short term planning, estimating and measuring, and risk.

The schedule and responsibilities for the schedule is one of those "chorus" elements I spoke about in an earlier blog called "A Melody not Hip=Hop (02)". This is what I said:

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Concept List

I am exploring a number of concepts under an eclectic collection of subject areas. Undoubtedly, I will add to these in time. Right now, they include:

A Strategic Risk Based Approach to Regulating Technologies and Vulnerabilities . A presentation to the 2007 International Symposium on Technology and Society given in June 2007. The conference was organised by The Society on Social Implications of Technology .

A Strategic Risk Based Approach to Regulating Technologies and Vulnerabilities . A peer-reviewed paper presented at the 2007 International Symposium on Technology and Society in June 2007. It has been published by The Society on Social Implications of Technology as conference proceedings. This link takes you to the complete bibliography .