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DIARY: June 12, 1997 01:18 PM Thursday; Rod Welch

Prepared article for PMI NCC Newsletter.

1...Summary/Objective
...........Give me men to match my mountains.


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Asilomar Conference Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned Failure Risk Management
Cache Memory Buffer, Communication Manager

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1007 - Summary/Objective
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100801 - Follow up ref SDS 12 0000, ref SDS 9 0000.
100802 -
100803 - The May issue of PM Network reviewed on 970525 is on learning from
100804 - project failure, i.e., turning failure into success, ref SDS 13 8488
100806 -  ..
100807 - Prepared a "report" on Asilomar for "lessons learned." ref OF 3 0001
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100809 -
100810 -          Project Management Institute Northern California Chapter
100811 -                  Asilomar Conference, Monterey, California
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100814 -  ..
100815 - Will include the original agenda for Asilomar last year, ref OF 3
100816 - PRTU, per discussion with Bill DeHart when the agenda was changed on
100817 - 960326. ref SDS 2 0001  Since there is not an Asilomar Conference this
100818 - year, we can provide something for the memebership to consider in
100819 - planning for the Conference next year, i.e., lessons learned.
100821 -  ..
100822 - A key point is that PMI needs more heft.
100824 -  ..
100825 - It is a collection of people who never ask a question, never advance a
100826 - new idea and seem unable to recognize one.  So, we need a broader
100827 - range of people.  We need to attract executives and others who have a
100828 - direct interest in making management successful, or coming forward and
100829 - saying this will not work and we are not using it because...
100831 -  ..
100832 - To attract a more dynamic membership that can offer bold, new ideas we
100833 - need stronger people.  Let's start with inviting executives to speak
100834 - to Asilomar dinner meetings.  We might develop a rotating list of
100835 - executives to sit on a panel for each dinner meeting and discuss ideas
100836 - advanced by guest speakers, and assess correlations, conflicts, and
100837 - implications relative to the PMBOK.
100839 -  ..
100840 - Explain objective for the Asilomar Conference to show project
100841 - management requires foundational steps of a vision, strategy and
100842 - tactics, ref OF 3 017K, as related by Ahmet at the 960608 Asilomar
100843 - planning meeting. ref SDS 1 0128
100845 -  ..
100846 - Should mention consideration to advertise to increase attendance and
100847 - this entails a question of cost v. income.
100849 -  ..
100850 - Explain difficulties getting advertising published.
100852 -  ..
100853 - Above the Court of Appeals office in Sacramento there is a quote that
100854 - says:
100855 -
100856 -           Give me men to match my mountains.
100857 -
100858 -    Decided to use this as the lead and theme of the article,
100859 -    ref OF 3 0001  A related aspect of the idea is from the meeting on
100860 -    960721 discussing Asilomar with Morris. ref SDS 4 0891
100862 -       ..
100863 -      [On 970613 submitted paper to PMI. ref SDS 15 0001
100865 -  ..
100866 - This applied the idea of using Communication Metrics similar to cache
100867 - memory systems for computers that provide a buffer to avoid people
100868 - from being overwhelmed, ref OF 3 0664, which seems to have been
100869 - initially developed on 960715. ref SDS 3 0676
100871 -  ..
100872 - An example of the need for a psychological buffer is from the article
100873 - on causes of project failure, where fear kept people from reporting
100874 - communication problems, reviewed on 970525. ref SDS 13 7777
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