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Vol. XI Issue XI - November 2009
Project Management eJournal
VIEWPOINTS
Got Testing?
By James Brown, PhD
Florida, USA
In the United States we are in the American football season. America’s team, the Dallas Cowboys have a new stadium with a new high definition scoreboard that is 60 yards long, 24 yards high and has 30 million bulbs (it’s Texas huge). Unfortunately, in the first pre-season game the scoreboard became part of the game when a football hit it during a punt. In fact during the pre-game warm-ups it was clear the scoreboard is so low that when a punter kicks the ball there is a potential it will hit the scoreboard.
At a cost of $40 million dollars you would think that the scoreboard would have been installed so that punts would not hit it. The owner of the Dallas Cowboy’s Jerry Jones said "they did all kinds of analysis and the scoreboard meets the NFL’s specifications."
Sometimes Analysis and Specifications are not enough
As a Project Manager the question you should have for Jerry Jones is that with all the expert analysis and specification review... "did you take a punter out onto the field and see if he could hit the scoreboard when he actually kicked the ball?"
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 About the Author Author Dr. James T. Brown, president of SEBA® Solutions Inc., a Registered Education Provider for the Project Management Institute, has provided training and consulting services for dozens of companies nationally and internationally. SEBA® Solutions also provides OnePdu.com http://OnePdu.com for online project management training. A recognized authority in project management, Dr. Brown is a frequently invited speaker on project management areas of interest. He is the author of The Handbook of Program Management published by McGraw Hill and is a member of the Project Management Institute, the National Speakers Association and the National Association of Corporate Directors. Dr. Brown has a patent for a project scheduling methodology, and has received numerous awards including "Engineer of the Year" from the Cape Canaveral Technical Societies and is a recipient of the "NASA Public Service Medal" for exceptional contributions to NASA’s mission. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, a MS in Engineering Management from Florida Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee State University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a certified speaking professional (CSP). To learn more about SEBA® visit www.SebaSolutions.com. You can contact James directly at jtbrown@sebasolutions.com. |
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