Over at AITS.org — Red Queen Race: Why Fast Tracking a Project is Not in Your Control

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”

“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast, as that!”Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Chapter 2, Lewis Carroll

There have been a number of high profile examples in the news over the last two years concerning project management.  For example, the initial rollout of the Affordable Care Act marketplace web portal was one of these, and the causes for its faults are still being discussed. As I write this, an article in the New York Times indicates that the fast track efforts to create an Ebola vaccine are faltering…

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