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skadamat · 2024-02-26
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Surprised nobody in this thread mentioned "How Big Things Get Done". Fantastic read that talks about the challenges of big projects when they don't bring on the right people with existing expertise:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512
skadamat · 2023-09-25
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These ideas hit home for me and heavily overlap with the ideas in How Big Things Get Done: https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512
tuatoru · 2023-07-29
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Getting to work rapidly is guaranteed to be the wrong thing to do with any difficult problem.
The book "How Big Things Get Done" elaborates on this and gives examples of how to do it right.
1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512
It almost seems trite when you read "... The project took longer than anticipated ... "
Really good read if you want to look into project estimations and planning
[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239...