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Stanford Project Office Best of Best Failed Mental Biology

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2313 - Summary/Objective
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231401 - Follow up ref SDS 34 0000, ref SDS 33 0000.
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231403 - The Associated Press reported Stanford University has closed its
231404 - 20-year old Facilities Project Management Office that employed 40
231405 - people. ref OF 1 0001
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231407 -       [On 971104 called Stanford. ref SDS 36 0000]
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231409 -     This conflicts with PM Network articles calling for Project
231410 -     Office, ref SDS 17 6902.
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231412 - Stanford has a $1B building improvement program, ref OF 1 0002
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231414 - Closure was prompted by a project budgeted for $17M on which
231415 - bids were 30% high and it was 6 months late in getting started while
231416 - efforts were made to reduce the budget. ref OF 1 VP6F
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231418 - Stanford recruited the "best of the best" for its Project
231419 - Office. ref OF 1 7389
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231421 -     On 950412 Primavera reported having used the best tools and the
231422 -     best practitioners for scheduling its project, but still failed.
231423 -     Something was missing. ref SDS 2 3920
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231425 -     Robert MacNamera recruited the "best and the brightest" at the
231426 -     Pentagon in the Kennedy Administration, but they were overwhelmed
231427 -     by the flow of daily information, and lost their way. ref SDS 4
231428 -     5872
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231430 -     If "best of the best" fail using "project management," what does
231431 -     this experience say about the prospects for the "Project Office"
231432 -     proposed for everyone else in an article reviewed on 970525?
231433 -     ref SDS 17 6902.
231434 -
231435 -            [On 980630 article that Atlantic Bell using Internet Web
231436 -            Site to support Project Office. ref SDS 37 0633]
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231438 -        View that smart people, who work hard, don't need Communication
231439 -        Metrics, reported on 950426, ref SDS 5 2394, may be erroneous.
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231441 -        Demonstrates limited span of attention, reported on 970829,
231442 -        ref SDS 31 7721, cannot be solved by smart people working hard,
231443 -        if there is not enough time to think, about all of the things
231444 -        that need to be considered, as reported last month on 970910,
231445 -        ref SDS 32 3479, per calculation of cost savings from
231446 -        Communication Metrics, ref SDS 35 2020.
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231448 -     Suggests human intelligence alone cannot meet demands of expanding
231449 -     complexity. Might it be that the human mind has created a world
231450 -     for which it is not well suited? ref OF 3 7515
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231452 -     Intelligence needs a boost on Information Highway.
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231457 - Stanford is replacing the Project Office with a smaller, streamlined
231458 - Office of Capital Planning and Management. ref OF 1 WQ9K
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231460 -     The new office will be advised by 4 outside general contractors.
231461 -     ref OF 1 NT8O
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