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  2. From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
  5. Message-ID: <ewright.726254206@convex.convex.com>
  6. Date: 5 Jan 93 17:16:46 GMT
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  16. In <C0Cu9q.Bz9@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
  17.  
  18. >What they don't tell you in the textbooks is that although Pert charts
  19. >were indeed invented for Polaris, they *weren't* used to manage it --
  20. >they were used to intimidate assorted Washington kibitzers, keeping
  21. >them at arms length from the people who actually ran the project
  22. >(in the traditional way, using competence and judgement rather than
  23. >Pert charts).
  24.  
  25. Doesn't surprise me.  From my experience, that seems to be the 
  26. main way they're still used today.
  27.