They do not have to worry about how many people the vendor needs to complete a project.
The program sometimes includes challenges such as working with contractors who may not have the manpower or equipment to complete a pipeline project on time, or learning how to deal with local officials.
By late 1997 it was possible for the agency to decide that, although there had until then been only some limited sequencing of individual genes, the state's laboratories were ready to jump into a huge project and sequence a complete organism.
The basic premise that Brooks argues against is the notion that a software project that takes one person a year to complete (twelve person-months) can have its timeline shortened to a single month simply by staffing the project with a dozen engineers.
The Kent Green Party said the project was "a complete waste of money".
Still, 2013 might have been a better target for this project, once screenshots and gameplay with sound and a more complete look were ready and the Star Citizen hype had gone to ground.
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In the early 1960s Walt Disney conceived a grand project for a giant ski resort between Los Angeles and San Francisco, complete with a fake Alpine village, but a blizzard of environmental lawsuits snowed him under.
Now that the epic project is finally complete Bacteria has provided a rather lengthy walk though of all the various features and the work that went into it, which you can check out after the break.
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The project will complete the restoration of the Category A listed Verdant Works.
Of course, getting all U.S. businesses to send SAP their payroll data would be a project that would take some time to complete.
The Conservative AM for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire asked the commission to outline when they intend to complete a full review of the Unified Network for the Organisation Project (UNO).
The project will produce a rough draft of the complete genome next spring, with a final version in three to five years.
Manx language officer Adrian Caine said the project has taken several years to complete and will provide a "fantastic teaching resource".
It's a project the company started last year and expects to complete by the end of this year, says Chief Information Officer Randy Mott .
For example, it generally costs 23 cents a word and a project can easily take from 6 to 8 weeks to complete.
But Olympic sceptic Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist, said it was easy to complete the "crazy project" on budget, if the budget was continually increased.
Gates negotiated flex-time before there was a word for it and pursued project work that she could complete in her own time and on her own terms.
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Javier Provencio, a neurologist who specializes in brain injuries at the Cleveland Clinic, thinks the project will yield benefits but is unlikely to provide a complete map of the brain.
Epic Games' first internal initiative to produce an Unreal Engine 3 project on Android is complete, nearly three years after a similar initiative produced the Epic Citadel demo.
In this study, BCG required its most intensely workaholic team members to take pre-scheduled, regular (one day per week) and complete (no phone calls or emails) time off during the course of a project.
The requesting Inspectors General are tasked with overseeing investigations that can take multiple years to complete, and the oversight work often begins in earnest during the final phases of a project.
Because of an accident, I ended up with a bad compound fracture and was confined to a wheel chair for four months, critical months during which I had to complete the project planning.
By the time the project is complete, in 2009, the reservoir will have risen still higher, and a 600 kilometre (375 mile) swathe of scenic China will be submerged.
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Besides lighting a fire under the public side of the project, this technique enabled Dr Venter and his collaborators to publish the first complete genetic sequence of a living organism, a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae.
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The project was ambitious: This machine was not a knockoff of a Dell or an Apple but a complete rethink, from the motherboard to the escape key.
The central assumption of his project was that aggregating the data from these groups would present a picture of violence in El Salvador complete enough to be of use to investigators.
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Under Project AEGISS, whenever a patient with either diarrhoea or vomiting sees a doctor, the surgery will complete a form giving basic information about the patient, when the illness started and an indication of recent travel.
RTD's Eagle P3 project and Workforce Initiative Now program have become a national model for agencies looking for enterprising ways to complete infrastructure projects sooner rather than later while also building a workforce for the short-term and long-term.
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