The strategy of parallel approaches in projects with unforeseeable uncertainty: the Manhattan case in retrospect
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Manhattan Project; Project Management; Parallel Approach; Combination; Unforeseeable uncertainty; Innovation; Manhattan Project.;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PPM-2012-01-25 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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