I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.
Now those are conditions which others can only dream of - on other major projects deadlines often slip, politicians often can't achieve consensus, and the planning process takes years.
Are we grading students through standardized exams or by how they meet project deadlines and work with others to accomplish complex goals?
"Make no mistake," she said in a statement, "even this modest success is more than a year behind schedule, and the project deadlines of other private space companies continue to slip as well".
Some of the hardest-working people I know are professionals whose erratic hours are linked to project deadlines, meaning that they may sometimes work for 24 hours without stopping, before vanishing for a day to recover.
Todd Proebsting of Microsoft says the software giant has run a dozen or so such markets, and that they quickly and cheaply capture employee sentiment on project deadlines or software quality more accurately than any other measure.
Project deadlines do not change, so one tries to fit 5 days' work into three.
As a result, inspections tend to accumulate towards internal project deadlines, possibly leading to excess overtime costs, quality degradation and difficulties in meeting milestones.
A system dynamics simulation was developed for a such complex high-tech environment, a milieu with high uncertainty in meeting project deadlines and with intensive competition over "scarce" resources.
Just the very idea of management, reporting structure, accountability, project deadlines, budget forecasts, all those things that I suspect everyone takes for granted in the 'real world,' were totally new to me.
One of the things we learned over the last three months, since we started this venture, was that there is a much bigger need [to help] those entrepreneurs that are funded, but prior to actually having the product being sold … There are a number of concerns in the crowdfunding industry about products that have not been able to make their projected deadlines.
