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Jan 28, 2009 by 10

Doubleheader: The Triple Constraint of A Campaign

This post is one of two posts today in our Gnome Stew Doubleheader. Today's Doubleheader is about designing campaigns. Check out Patrick Benson's article: You Do Not Have Time for That after reading this.... When I am not wearing my pointy hat here on Gnome Stew, or behind the screen GMing, I am a Project Manager (stop boo-ing..) In Project Management there exists something we call the Triple Constraint.  All ...
Jan 28, 2009 by 11

Doubleheader: You Do Not Have Time for That

This post is one of two posts today in our Gnome Stew Doubleheader. Today's Doubleheader is about designing campaigns.  Check out Phil Vecchione's article Doubleheader: The Triple Constraint of A Campaign after reading this.... My father retired a few years back after several decades of being a union electrician for the Chicago Transit Authority. He was a foreman in charge of maintaining the signal services for several of the train ...

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