[imglorp]

That's an extreme and useful counterexample. Did anyone distill Apollo project management lessons learned into something we can apply now?

[waiquoo]

Of course. Here are couple interesting papers by NASA leadership from the Apollo era (PDF warning):

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197200...

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/293253main_62682main_jerry_madden_f...