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 A Glass Can Be Half Full -- Even in Microgravity
By Tom Sutliff
The project team's response to this challenge taught me how resilient people and projects can be when you give them the chance.
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 Story: Managing the Unexpected
Managing the Unexpected
By Marty Davis
You can go through your whole career and never have someone drop one of your spacecraft. I think that would have been nice.
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 Feature: The Morning Meeting
The Morning Meeting
By Scott Tibbitts
The idea was simple: a short all-hands meeting once a day to maintain the week's action item list.
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 Practice: Cross-Training Within the Project Team
Cross-Training Within the Project Team
By Owen Gadeken
Project teams are often hampered by internal conflicts between team members.
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