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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Why are we surprised when vendors can’t keep projects on time and budget?
It has been occurring to me lately that there is a fundamental mismatch between how some astronomy projects select and manage external vendors and their expectations of these external vendors’ performance. In our case, we require competition and fixed price … Continue reading