The Boyd Cycle and Project Management

Anyone who is a student of maneuver warfare knows who Colonel John Boyd is but I doubt many students and practitioners of project management are aware of John Boyd. I would venture to say even fewer understand how his work in military command and control is applicable to project management. John Boyd was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. He sought to understand how the United States’ F-86 fighter could achieve a kill ratio of tent to 1 against the technically superior MIG-15