I enjoyed this Popular Mechanics piece on the problematic foundations that underpin forensic science — CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics. Per the piece’s header:
Forensic science was not developed by scientists. It was mostly created by cops, who were guided by little more than common sense.
In fact, I was reminded of the debate that we’ve had about project management as a profession (here, survey here, survey results here). The article reinforced just how far we have to go to true professionalization.
While we have many common sense PM practices, how many of them are demonstrably linked to project success? Which are the most important and why? The Value of PM is still pretty fuzzy…
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