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Managing Projects as Investments
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Managing Projects as Investments

by Stephen A. Devaux
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
255 pages
7h 45m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Managing Projects as Investments
79Chapter four: Managing project time
A HISTORICAL EXAMPLE OF DRAG
COST IN HUMAN LIVES
In 1991, during the  rst Gulf War, it was discovered that a software
bug in the radar of the Patriot antimissile system was causing the
timing system to lose a small fraction of a second for every hour that
a battery had been operational. Quoting from the February 4, 1992,
report of the Information Management and Technology Division of
the United States General Accounting Of ce (http://www.fas.org/
spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm):
On February 21, 1991, the Patriot Project Of ce sent a mes-
sage to Patriot users stating that very long run times could
cause ...
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ISBN: 9781482212709