When not opining here on TechCrunch I'm a software engineer for the fine folks at HappyFunCorp (1) and I'm occasionally called on to diagnose and fix projects that have gone horribly wrong (2).
This study compares 11 fixed link projects in Norway, linking islands to the mainland.
The large outlays of the past two years, however, were aimed at stabilization, a term the military uses to mean rapid-fix projects intended to undermine insurgents and deliver local government services, for instance.
Regularly, USAID now hands over huge hunks of "aid" money to big, impossibly ambitious, quick-fix projects run by the usual no-bid Beltway Bandit contractors whose incompetence, wastefulness, unconscionable profits, and outright fraud should be a national scandal. .
The park, which hasn't raised fees since 2006, says the extra money will be used for education programs, campground maintenance and repair projects, including fixing up Scotty's Castle.
The fixed link project also includes 12 km of highway.
Løvold was an important enthusiast for the fixed link project, which would materialize as the Kristiansund and Frei Fixed Link in 1992.
Researcher time, recorded in the research diary for all activities, was divided between research (needed for this study only) and service (if patients were being routinely recruited for email support), fixed (per project) and variable (per practice) costs.
Having spent years attempting to fix broken projects and teams within the NHS and local government, and also in the private sector, what I have learned is this: a public service and a business are inherently different beasts and asking one to behave as the other is like asking a fish to ride a bicycle.
Only by fixing the project direction can you truly define the project scope.
