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Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Sixth Edition: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget, 6th Edition
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Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Sixth Edition: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget, 6th Edition

by James P. Lewis
January 2023
Beginner to intermediate
592 pages
9h 38m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 6

Headless-Chicken Projects and How to Prevent Them

When I was a boy, we lived in the country for a few years, and my parents kept some chickens around. In those days, if you wanted fried chicken for lunch on Sunday, you didn’t go to a grocery store and buy a processed chicken. Instead, you caught one in the backyard and whacked its head off—that was your lunch (after cooking it, of course).

When you cut off a chicken’s head, the body runs around spewing blood for a few seconds, then it falls over and quivers a bit, and the chicken is “officially” dead. It is actually dead when you cut off its head, but it takes some time for the message ...

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ISBN: 9781264286287