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Podcast: Risk, Cost, and Project Management with Christian Smart

December 15, 2020 Eric Lofgren 1

Christian Smart joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss his new book, Solving for Project Risk Management. He is the chief scientist at […]

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Why are analysts complicit in cost and schedule growth?

September 24, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

I showed that for 10 projects for which a cost risk analysis had been conducted, the actual cost was greater than the 90th percentile for […]

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Economics doesn’t describe the reality of production

February 27, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The revenue or cost of each additional unit is called the margin. Economists assume that corporations seek to maximize profit, which occurs at the unit […]

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