Accession Number:

AD1016086

Title:

Just Another Boondoggle The MC4 Offsite Experience

Descriptive Note:

Journal Article

Corporate Author:

Defense Acquisition University Fort Belvoir United States

Personal Author(s):

• Lee,Alvin

Report Date:

2009-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

3.0

Abstract:

Software engineers, administrative staff , and logisticians stare intently at a sticker-laden board, agonizing over which square to reveal next. Like the teams around them, the group seems transfixed, as if trying to will each opaque square into revealing what lies beneath. Is it a sought-after-dot Or will the choice cost them when a blank square is revealed It is the second day of a three-day strategic planning meeting away from military groundsoften dubbed an off site.

Descriptors:

• management planning and control
• acquisition
• software engineering
• military acquisition
• iraqi war
• contractors
• leadership
• investments
• personnel management
• training
• workload
• instructors

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE