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How Big Things Get Done:
Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved.
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050 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
…projects have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.
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050 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
…it’s a serious mistake to treat planning as an exercise in abstract, bureaucratic thought and calculation.
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052 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
We’re good at learning by tinkering – which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.
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052 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
A good plan is one that meticulously applies experimentation or experience. A great plan is one that rigorously applies both.
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053 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
…a highly iterative process… is worth the extraordinary work it entails…
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073 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
Try, learn, again. Whatever the project or the technology, it’s the most effective path to a plan that delivers.
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079 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
Age reflects time, and time enables experience.
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080 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
…we do not make the most of experience because we do not appreciate how deeply experience can enrich judgment and improve project planning and leadership.
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081 |
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How Big Things Get Done:
…experience is what elevates the best project leaders… above the rest.
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091 |