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| Your last comment concerned me a bit. My main reason for posting
| this document to the list aside from the fact I thought some of you
| may find it interesting, was to ensure that I hadn't taken anything
| out of context. I believe that you are saying I have with FBC
| paper. I will pull out all the original source documents again for
| another in depth look. I would appreciate any further thoughts you
| have on the matter, and references to any source documents you feel
| I may have left out.

It is late a night so this might not be understandable. Despite the
fact that many at NASA didn't like Goldin's FBC until it was forced on
them, Goldin's changes didn't really represent any sort of drastic
change to NASA. Goldin's background is as an insider in the military
aerospace culture. He wasn't out to make sure that something like
space colonization was achieved. He was retuning the NASA system.
Therefore the focus on FBC in the paper precludes the discussion of
"did these changes really get us closer to space colonization?" or any
other goal because the discussion is on a process used to achieve a
goal not the fact there was no clear goal against which to measure the
process. So there is a lack of "context" about why is this process is
important or not important. Not important from my point of view.

The commissions who's works you are siteing, are considering did this
piece of the process work better on this project vs a slightly
different way on another project and therefore are not addressing the
subject of what SHOULD the process be. Case in point is the conclusion
that collocation is important to FBC. Where the issue really was,
"was there a method to retain and distribute the "whys" and
discussions that happend during any project so that these were
available later?". Without this the whole system is only as good as
the weakest chain. The first person with critical information in
their head to leave or die pushs the whole project into failure.
Colocation insures this type of failure whereas seperateness requires
interface documents and many other types of documents to be generated
so at least some knowledge is written down. Just stateing that
collocation worked better ignores the lack of repeatability by anybody
but that specific team. Change the team enough (one person in the
wrong spot) and you might as well pick any random group to do the work.

Mitchell James

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