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Non-existent code doesn’t crash

Let us sing the praises of ruthless editing. Focus on what is important and delete the rest. This is a lesson I keep learning and...

By Matthew Stibbe

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The Devil’s project management dictionary

Ambrose Bierce wrote his famous ‘Devil’s Dictionary’ after the American Civil War. It was as funny as it was cynical. I have written a ...

By Matthew Stibbe

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Mission control: 100 rules for NASA project management

NASA is undergoing some big changes and some some soul-searching right now. But it is an organisation that has achieved some of humanity’s...

By Matthew Stibbe

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Fast, cheap or good: choose two

I used to make computer games and back then we had a saying about project management: ‘you can have any two of fast, cheap or good.’ It’s a...

By Matthew Stibbe

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Little data: why it matters more than big data

Everyone’s talking about ‘big data’. There’s no doubt that there are more bits and bytes than ever before. As George Dyson writes ‘when the...

By Matthew Stibbe