Tag: Project Lessons from History
The Project That Connected the World: How ARPANET Became the Blueprint for Integration Management
1. The 1960s: A World of Silos Waiting to Connect In the late 1960s, “data” lived in isolation.Each research lab had one massive computer, costing millions, and each spoke a language of its own. Collaboration meant mailing magnetic tapes or flying across states. Then came ARPA — a visionary branch of the U.S. Department of…
🚀 The Challenger Disaster – When Quality Lost to Pressure
1. The Morning That Changed Project Quality Forever January 28, 1986, dawned unusually cold at the Kennedy Space Center. Frost covered the launch pad. NASA’s engineers, watching weather reports, grew uneasy. They knew the O-rings — tiny rubber seals in the solid rocket boosters — had a dangerous weakness: they lost elasticity in low temperatures.…
