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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry
  3. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  4. Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
  5. Message-ID: <C0Cu9q.Bz9@zoo.toronto.edu>
  6. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:20:12 GMT
  7. References: <19519.2b2f721a@levels.unisa.edu.au> <1992Dec28.163339.25647@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725659270@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.164516.10926@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com>
  8. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  11. In article <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
  12. >I've got news for you, Gary.  Those Pert charts that you are
  13. >so fond of were invented for (boo, hiss!) success-oriented
  14. >Polaris-missile program.  Good engineers always expect problems...
  15.  
  16. What they don't tell you in the textbooks is that although Pert charts
  17. were indeed invented for Polaris, they *weren't* used to manage it --
  18. they were used to intimidate assorted Washington kibitzers, keeping
  19. them at arms length from the people who actually ran the project
  20. (in the traditional way, using competence and judgement rather than
  21. Pert charts).
  22. -- 
  23. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  24.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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