Do the problems come with the scale of the venture? Looking at NASA
what can you learn about being big. This is what I had in mind. I think
getting big will be a bigger challenge to ERPS than any technological
hurdle.
As for dirty linen, I think one thing you see when an organization
gets to a certain size is that it must learn to deal with it before
someone else does. Can you imagine 5 reporters at an ERPS meeting?
Randall Clague wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 12:49:32 -0500, Alex Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >What internal factions would hinder and what strengths would shine
> >through? How exactly on scaling up could ERPS avoid NASA's pitfalls?
>
> Hm. What would a combination of airing our dirty linen in public and
> contemplating our collective navel be *called*?
>
> Whatever it is, I'm not going to do it. We don't need to know that
> information, because it's completely meaningless: the organizational
> evolutionary path between here and orbit is so long and nebulous that
> attempting to describe it would be futile.
>
> We could speculate as to how we *should* scale up the organization to
> meet the challenge of putting something in orbit - how we think the
> path should look - but it would be kind of like the PHA we did on
> PROTO some years ago: so premature as to be of very little use to the
> organization.
>
> -R
>
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> Every complex, difficult problem has a simple,
> easy solution - which is wrong.
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