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The chapter presents an overview of how to manage PA projects, driven largely by Doug’s experience in managing our test projects. That experience comes from several decades of software project management, along with an electrical engineering background and a couple of personal interests that helped shape the thought process.
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All Source Analysis System/ENemy System Correlation Element, a large tactical data fusion system.
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Personal footnote: if you find Liege Belgium on the map in Fig. 7.4 (just below the legend), you’ll know why Doug is a big fan of General Patton, whose attack from the south broke up the German offensive just before it got there.
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In the position shown, with material otherwise even white’s passed pawn wins.
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This philosophy paid off in December 1944 when the German army staged a huge attack from the Ardennes and surrounded Bastogne. Patton’s Third Army was the only one agile enough to react as he famously “attacked with three divisions in 48 hours.”
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Rosenberg, D., Boehm, B., Stephens, M., Suscheck, C., Dhalipathi, S.R., Wang, B. (2020). Managing Parallelism: Faster Delivery, Fewer Defects, Lower Cost. In: Parallel Agile – faster delivery, fewer defects, lower cost. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30701-1_7
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