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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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Rumbles on the Columbia-class submarine

April 11, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Current Navy plans call for construction on the first of 12 Columbia-class nuclear-armed submarines to begin in 2021, with an overall price tag of $128 billion. But […]

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