Why Even Good Managers Cause Projects to Fail

by Jim Highsmith

On the desk in my office sits an entirely self-contained, enclosed, living ecosystem. Five inches high, this microcosm of life contains algae, very small shrimp and snails, and multitudes of microscopic bacteria, all living by exchanging stuff with each other and by converting light to biochemical energy. Next to this living ecosystem, on my computer monitor, digital beings (Biots) exchange digital stuff. They live, eat (each other, of course), mate, give birth, evolve into new organisms, and die -- a sea of artificial life created in silicon by one of the many Artificial Life programs available.

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Why Even Good Managers Cause Projects to Fail March 2000