Why It Projects Fail

Baran foi arquivado. Em 1965, preocupado com o gasto excessivo de recursos ocasionado pela falta de comunicação entre os gigantescos e poderosos computadores da agência, Bob Taylor, diretor do programa de computação da ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency - um centro de pesquisas norte-americano que, embora financiado pelas forças armadas dos EUA, gozava de muita autonomia em seus projetos -, decidiu investir esforços na tentativa de conectar as máquinas. Ressuscitou, então, o…

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analysis, the newcomer to the field has insufficient help available. The graduate student, the researcher, and the practicing engineer must struggle through journal articles or be content with elementary presentation in books on numerical analysis. Often, it is the subtle details that determine the success or failure of a computational activity; yet, the practices that are learned through experience by successful computing groups rarely appear in print. A consequence is that many workers…

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majority foreign ownership; in Slovakia and Romania 42.7% and 46.7% of assets are in banks having majority foreign ownership leaving Slovenia as the outlier in terms of foreign ownership. By contrast, in Latin America, only Chile had more than 50% of its banking sector controlled by foreign interests in 1999 and that number was only 53.6% (IMF, 2000). In the transition countries, the change in ownership structure over the last half of the decade has been remarkably rapid. In 1997, in…

broad range of phenomena in the biological and behavioral sciences from the evolution of species to the selection of cultural practices. This paper reviews the role of that principle in diverse areas of the biobehavioral sciences and discusses how it can provide one dimension along which the diverse disciplines relevant to the prevention of problems of human behavior can be integrated. Such integration should improve the ability of prevention science to reduce the incidence and…

Contents in Brief 1.1 Introduction Cryptography has a long and fascinating history. The most complete non-technical account of the subject is Kahn’s The Codebreakers. This book traces cryptography from its initial and limited use by the Egyptians some 4000 years ago, to the twentieth century where it played a crucial role in the outcome of both world wars. Completed in 1963, Kahn’s book covers those aspects of the history which were most significant (up to that time) to the development…

emphasize decisions with a time dimension, such as various forms of investments. Moreover, it is often useful to assume that the time horizon is infinite. This makes dynamic optimization a necessary part of the tools we need to cover, and the first significant fraction of the course goes through, in turn, sequential maximization and dynamic programming. We assume throughout that time is discrete, since it leads to simpler and more intuitive mathematics. The baseline macroeconomic…

Luiza Ribeiro Viotti Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop Leonardo Luís Gorgulho N. Fernandes (Editor) BRAZIL IN THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL 2010­‑2011 Brasília – 2014 Foreword In 2010-2011 Brazil sat in the Security Council for its tenth term as a non-permanent member. The preceding terms were 1946-47, 1951-52, 1954-55, 1963-64, 1967-68, 1988-89, 199394, 1998-99 and 2004-05. Brazil, together with Japan, is the country which has more often been elected to a seat in…