In the developed world our lives are driven every day by calendars and clocks: What time is my flight, what day should we meet, how late can you work? In the world of scheduling and time-scaled planning, start dates, end dates, and durations is the order of the day. As far as we know we
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I recently presented a paper at the Project Management Institute, North American Global Congress. My paper was titled the Job Shop Scheduling Problem, Mathematical Complexity Theory, and Non-Polynomial Time Algorithms. As you can imagine, a rather narrow swath of the PMI congregants found my topic compelling enough to part with an hour of their time.
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We call NetPoint innovative. But as my Philosophy professors would chant from morning to night, “Define your terms.” Just what the hell is innovation anyway? Webster’s says it is, “The introduction of something new.” Most likely this is not the narrowest of definitions to be found in Webster’s. You hear the term everywhere, but who
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