Comments on: Applicable quote to Earned Value Management http://thecriticalpath.info/2008/12/02/applicable-quote-to-earned-value-management/ Free Project Management Information, Advice, and Templates Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Derek http://thecriticalpath.info/2008/12/02/applicable-quote-to-earned-value-management/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Derek Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:39:55 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=40#comment-112 Anjel, I stand corrected. Could both Deming AND Hewlett be paraphrasing William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)? "If you can measure that of which you speak and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory." If I am to include a quote in a book, I want to site the correct source. Anjel, I stand corrected. Could both Deming AND Hewlett be paraphrasing William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)?

“If you can measure that of which you speak and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.”

If I am to include a quote in a book, I want to site the correct source.

]]> By: Derek http://thecriticalpath.info/2008/12/02/applicable-quote-to-earned-value-management/comment-page-1/#comment-2979 Derek Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:39:00 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=40#comment-2979 Anjel, I stand corrected. Could both Deming AND Hewlett be paraphrasing William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)? "If you can measure that of which you speak and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory." If I am to include a quote in a book, I want to site the correct source. Anjel, I stand corrected. Could both Deming AND Hewlett be paraphrasing William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)?

“If you can measure that of which you speak and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.”

If I am to include a quote in a book, I want to site the correct source.

]]> By: Anjel Scarborough http://thecriticalpath.info/2008/12/02/applicable-quote-to-earned-value-management/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Anjel Scarborough Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:53:05 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=40#comment-111 And Hewlett was actually quoting Edward Deming ... "What gets measured gets improved." And Hewlett was actually quoting Edward Deming … “What gets measured gets improved.”

]]> By: Anjel Scarborough http://thecriticalpath.info/2008/12/02/applicable-quote-to-earned-value-management/comment-page-1/#comment-2978 Anjel Scarborough Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:53:00 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=40#comment-2978 And Hewlett was actually quoting Edward Deming ... "What gets measured gets improved." And Hewlett was actually quoting Edward Deming … “What gets measured gets improved.”

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