ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is the result of my cumulative experience as a project and program manager and technical experience writing software for commercial, energy, space, and defense systems. These experiences have informed my thought processes over thirty years—some wonderful experiences, some not so wonderful. In the end, there are a small number of people who have caused me to rethink my view of the project management view of the world. The first is John Caterham, who was the CIO at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Golden, Colorado. Rocky Flats was a U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Agency production site from 1952 to 1992.

The cleanup of that site was what Edwin Land called manifestly important and nearly ...

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