These projects demonstrate that we can efficiently reduce emissions while at the same time increasing the producing life and ultimate recovery of conventional oil reserves.

That million dollars would affect a number of smaller projects. It's time to get our heads together, find solutions and lead our way out of it.

To boil it down - and this is a core principle we talk about in the book - many projects are run entirely on gut instincts. But the specific problems that plague software projects are really resistant to management by gut instincts! If you manage a project with your gut, and only make decisions based on your intuition, you'll keep running into the same problems. And those are the ones we talk about in the book.

As temperature increases, leakage increases exponentially. TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co] projects that leakage consumes about 50% of the total power. We've asked our customers implementing designs on 90-nm silicon, and they are seeing that leakage consumes 25 to 40% of power. In moving to 65 nm, we expect 50 to 70% of total power will be lost through leakage.

I think it's going to be problematic if we cancel those projects because we are under contract. Some of the money is sunk cost that can't be recovered in any other way than through a rate increase to all property owners.

Skills are one of the largest impediments to BI [projects].