I am pondering applicability of quantum mechanics to life in general and project management in particular.
It had occurred to me that Schroedinger wave function perfectly describes situation in PM world. I would like to qualify the above statement that I am using only a methaphor from the quantum mechanics domain – not the methodology or math apparatus.
The wave function is used to describe a system – an electron, for instance. As soon as you attempt to obtain a measure of the system, the function collapses: all potential outcomes coalesce into a single one – the outcome on the moment of the measure taking. An electron-wave becomes the electron-particle. as soon as you measure it! The measurement affects state, precipitates it from what “could be” into what it is. A PM does not really knows about up to date status of the project; he does know a general direction, past milestones, EV and other measures and could extrapolate from these where the project ought to be at any particular moment; but only when he actually takes the measure the projects status is pinned down to a defined state.
Also I have been thinking about how does data is being affected by the processing applied to it… and Heisenberg Principle. More on this later.