Command and Control

Command and Control: Nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety.  Eric Schlosser.  The Penguin Press, NY.  2013. Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser, is not a project management book.  Quoting the inside cover of the dust jacket, “Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident …

The Project Status Report – The Bad News

“It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.”                                                                                                 – Tony Robbins Over the last couple of posts, I’ve discussed the “what” of the project status report (i.e., the content).  In this post, the conclusion of this three part series, I discuss the “why” of the …

The Project Status Report – Content That Matters

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”                                                                                                 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This is the second post in the series on The Project Status Report.  In this post, I get specific about the appropriate content of a PSR.  But first, while it is called a …