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SUBJECTS
PMI events, Communication Metrics workshop
Change - Taking Quantum Leap
Experience, Case Studies, Continual Learning
Conflict with Existing Methods
Ignorance, Fear, Denial
Time - Too Busy Being Busy
Pharoah's Cost Control Problem
CPM, Bill Lord resisting
Budgeting to Fail
Lord, Bill Objected to Using CPM Schedule in 1966

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1913 - Summary/Objective
1914 -
191401 - Follow up ref SDS 9 0000.
191402 -
191403 - Thinking about the 4 events Ahmet wants.
191404 -
191405 - Submitted via ref DIT 1 line 30 (explained in next record segment)
191406 - this record as attachment, along with resubmission of updated
191407 - analysis of ref SDS 9 line 60.
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191409 -
191410 -  ..
1915 -
1916 -
1917 - Progress
1918 -
191801 - Did more work today on ideas developed during disucssion with Bill
191802 - Dehart on 950601. ref SDS 9 0001.
191803 -
191804 - Created more links into the record to make sure we are staying on
191805 - track with respect to points that have come up so far.  Clarified and
191806 - added language to sharpen ideas on scope, also, on 950601. ref SDS 9
191807 - 4141
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191810 -  ..
191811 - CPM Analysis
191812 -
191813 - We need to develop a CPM showing the relationships between each
191814 - event, particularly to consider the practicality of using input from
191815 - one event to support a succeeding event.  Will this work?
191816 -
191817 -     Resource allocation might be helpful here, so we can farm out
191818 -     tasks to ensure no one team member is overburdened.
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191820 -
191821 -
191822 -  ..
191823 - How to Tell the Story of Change
191824 -
191825 - Lori Brown might be good for the February event on emerging
191826 - technologies, to explain how SDS was different from what they had been
191827 - doing in agency management at the California Department of Water
191828 - Resources (CDWR), what SDS contributed, how things have gone since SDS
191829 - is no longer being used (this might be touchy), and the difficulty she
191830 - had explaining the benefits of SDS to her superiors and colleagues,
191831 - ref SDS 4 line 81.  She would give us some "diversity," plus she
191832 - presents herself very well.
191833 -
191834 - Henry Goswick could explain how hard they tried at McClellan AFB to
191835 - use "automated integration", but the tools they had available did not
191836 - get the job done, so everyone gave up on it, ref SDS 2 line 157.
191837 - ..
191838 - Jake McMichael could explain his efforts to try SDS at Sandia
191839 - Labs, ref SDS 3 line 70, and ref SDS 7 line 69.
191840 -
191841 - Bill DeHart could talk about his memo to Chris Snyder, and Chris might
191842 - discuss the pressures in organizations that make it diffucult to
191843 - introduce new methods.  The aim would be to help attendees deal with
191844 - resistance to change within their organizations in trying MPM.
191845 -
191846 -  ..
191847 -
191848 - In the 1960s "investing" in CPM was still considered by many to be
191849 - unrewarding in the same way that only a few hundred years earlier,
191850 - literacy (reading and writing) was considered too time consuming to be
191851 - worthwhile for everyone. ref SDS 13 4444  Now writing and CPM are
191852 - mainstream.  The resistance to change, however, remains constant.
191853 -
191854 - PMI is a professional organization that evaluates and promotes useful
191855 - change, and so the Asilomar Conference presents an opportunity to help
191856 - people transition from grazing on information in endless meetings,
191857 - calls and email, to investing intellectual capital that fosters a
191858 - culture of knowledge.
191859 -
191860 -    [On 960105 Max Blodgett at Corps of Engineers recommends specifying
191861 -    Communication Metrics, ref SDS 15 1008;
191862 -
191863 -    [On 960221 overcoming resistance to trying new ideas in order to
191864 -    gather evidence that a new way of working saves time and money,
191865 -    requires analysis by experts of underlying rationale, discussed
191866 -    with Tom Landauer. ref SDS 17 0000
191867 -
191868 -    [On 960620 develop idea of PMI aiding improvement in paper for
191869 -    David Buoncristiani at Asilomar Conference. ref SDS 22 1470
191870 -
191871 -    [On 960612 resistance to new ideas eventually overcome by Intel,
191872 -    leading to the PC industry. ref SDS 20 4444
191873 -
191874 -  ..
191875 -
191876 - This is an old battle that must be won by each generation.
191877 -
191878 -       [On 950629 discussed ideas for Jul event in Asilomar,
191879 -       ref SDS 11 6943,
191880 -
191881 -       [On 960227 planning meeting with Morris discusses challenge of
191882 -       leadership. ref SDS 18 0595
191883 -
191884 -      ..
191885 -     Learning from Experience - CPM
191886 -
191887 -     I remember well Bill Lord (who owned Lord Bros. Contractors in
191888 -     Portland) coming into Chuck Montgomery's office in 1966 and saying
191889 -     that the CPM schedule Chuck had put together for a sewer project
191890 -     in Gresham, Or, was not needed.  Bill said Lord Bros. "...didn't
191891 -     have time nor the money to waste on this stuff, and that Chuck was
191892 -     hired to expedite the work."  Chuck had to hide the CPM schedule
191893 -     from Bill in order to get it done, and he had to be careful which
191894 -     superintendant he discussed it with, all in order to save Lord
191895 -     Brothers from financial failure.
191896 -
191897 -         [960612 Lynn Conway tried to introduce VLSI that is credited
191898 -         with launching the PC industry. ref SDS 21 1368
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191901 -      ..
191902 -     Historical Perspective
191903 -
191904 -     Sounds like what happened to the Pharohs in Egypt.
191905 -
191906 -        I can well imagine the Pharaoh's project manager explaining the
191907 -        advantages of using 3 slaves instead of 2 on a critical rock
191908 -        splitting task, and the Pharaoh noting that they didn't have
191909 -        time nor the grain to invest in another slave on a task that
191910 -        was traditionally done by 2 slaves, ref SDS 5 line 303.
191911 -
191912 -         ..
191913 -        Vision, Experience Wisdom
191914 -
191915 -        The modern use of "vision" is to set a broad goal, objective or
191916 -        image of a result to be achieved.  It uses the TQM practice of
191917 -        figuring out where you are going before starting. This can come
191918 -        from a lucky insight, but usually comes from experience.  The
191919 -        characteristic of having "vision" seems like a composite of
191920 -        several mental processes that arise in large measuer from
191921 -        experience.
191922 -
191923 -              [See later analysis at ref SDS 12 line 286.]
191924 -
191925 -        Ed Scannel told of the J.C. Penny story about vision coming
191926 -        from experience at, ref SDS 6 line 176.  I later developed the
191927 -        concept of wisdom as an extension of knowledge in a discussion
191928 -        with Morris, ref SDS 18 line 734.  I drew on this concept in a
191929 -        discussion with General Hank Hatch, now VP at Fluor Daniel,
191930 -        explaining the advantage of SDS to support the General Versnon
191931 -        Walter's role of leadership aide, ref SDS 19 line 512.
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191934 -      ..
191935 -     Culture Drifting in Circles Lessons of History Not Aligned
191936 -     History Repeated Culture Drifting in Circles Lessons Not Learned
191937 -
191938 -     This kind of scenario was recounted in the Pmnet p. 5, Feb 1993
191939 -     at ref OF 3 line 25, in building the US Navy's first metal clad
191940 -     ship during George Washington's presidency, reviewed at ref SDS 1
191941 -     line 220.  That experience sounds like Joel Koppleman's report on
191942 -     difficulties Primavera had with its Windows program, ref SDS 5
191943 -     line 254.
191944 -
191945 -        [See explanation of why Communication Manager is needed from
191946 -        discussion with Corps of Engineers, ref SDS 14 line 238, and
191947 -        why it must be specified to encourage contractors to apply
191948 -        better tools, ref SDS 16 line 100.]
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SUBJECTS
Communications & Communication Metrics
Modern Project Management (MPM)
Re-Engineer Project Management
Scenario using SDS

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230701 - Follow up work at ref SDS 9 line 380.
230702 -
230703 - Sent Bill ref DIT 1 line 30 requesting his comments on the scenario,
230704 - ref OF 1 line 11, submitted at ref SDS 8 line 78 via ref DIP 1 line
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230706 -
230707 -     [Followed up at ref SDS 10 line 70.]
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