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| What Is This Fourth Dimension?
By Todd Post
Soon after we started publishing ASK, I heard from some of our NASA readers that we needed to feature more stories about managing research projects
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| Earthly Considerations on Mars
By Tim Flores
Much had already written about the Mars missions. Why did I think I had something new to say?
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| Getting Politically Active
By Dr. Robert J. Shaw
I spent a lot of time explaining my vision for the new program—and listening to their complaints.
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| Stumping for the Project
By Carol Ginty
Where I work, we joke about how we all went to engineering school but what we really needed were classes in political science and marketing.
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| Grins & Giggles: The Launch Pad to High Performance
By Maj. Norman H. Patnode
"Bring your lunch," he said, "we're gonna have some fun." We were a little apprehensive—was this allowed?
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| Transfer Wisdom Workshops: Coming to a NASA Center Near You
By Denise Lee
In November 2001, the APPL Knowledge Sharing Initiative introduced a new product, the Transfer Wisdom Workshop. The idea was to give practitioners at each of the NASA centers the opportunity to engage in a knowledge sharing activity.
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| Project Management: The Television Show
By Terry Little
While watching the last episode, I recognized parallels between what was going on in the emergency room, with its host of accident and gunshot wound victims, and what goes on in successful project management.
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| Lessons Learned Again and Again and Again
By W. Scott Cameron
I want to scream, "I learned these lessons 30 years ago. Why do we continue to learn these same lessons over and over again?"
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| | Practices |
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| Implementation Reviews
By Gerald Murphy
We took the approach of asking each team, "What do you need in order to get your job done, and how can we make that happen?"
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| ASK Talks with Dr. Michael Hecht
Project manager or scientist? Dr. Michael Hecht of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows while it may be difficult, you can be both.
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