Project management and the scientific method

[silona]

from Persona Prime at http://silona.org/project-management-and-the-scientific-method/2010/09/28/
So many fervent discussions on different project management styles baffle me…

I was raised to be a scientist.  One of my earliest memories is being

Comments

[goulo]

Hi! For some reason this post prompts me to wonder if you've ever played Zendo, a clever geeky game about testing hypotheses and induction that can be viewed as an abstracted version of doing science. Or software debugging. :)

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/154012/zendo-as-a-tool-for-teaching-the-scientific-method

I first played Zendo with JP years ago.

[mostlyfriday]

I so completely agree with you! I cannot begin to tell you how many hours I've wasted in meetings with people passionately discussing one method or another, and I want to just stand up and scream "they're all basically the same, just with different time-cycles!"

It's a relief to hear someone else express this :-)