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· The same
work under the same conditions will be estimated differently by ten
different estimators or by one estimator at ten different times.
· Any project
can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).
· The most
valuable and least used WORD in a project manager's vocabulary is
"NO".
· The most
valuable and least used PHRASE in a project manager's vocabulary is
"I don't know".
· Nothing is
impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
· You can con
a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con
him into meeting it.
· At the heart
of every large project is a small project trying to get out.
· If you don't
stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
· The more
desperate the situation the more optimistic the situatee.
· Too few
people on a project can't solve the problems - too many create more
problems than they solve.
· A change
freeze is like the abominable snowman: it is a myth and would anyway melt
when heat is applied.
· A user will
tell you anything you ask about, but nothing more.
· Of several
possible interpretations of a communication, the least convenient is the
correct one.
· The
conditions attached to a promise are forgotten, only the promise is
remembered.
· There's
never enough time to do it right first time but there's always enough
time to go back and do it again.
· The
bitterness of poor quality last long after the sweetness of making a date
is forgotten.
· I know that
you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure
you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
· The sooner
you begin coding the later you finish.
· What is not
on paper has not been said.
· If you don't
know where you're going, any road will take you there.
· If you fail
to plan you are planning to fail.
· A little
risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.
· The sooner
you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.
· A badly
planned project will take three times longer than expected - a well
planned project only twice as long as expected.
· If you can
keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven't
understood the plan.
· When all's
said and done a lot more is said than done.
· If it can go
wrong it will
- Murphy's Law.
· It will go
wrong in the worst possible way
- Sod's law.
· Work expands
to fill the time available for its completion
- Parkinson's Law.
· Finely
chopped cabbage in mayonnaise
- Coleslaw.
· Murphy, Sod
and Parkinson are alive and well - and working on your project.
· There are no
good project managers - only lucky ones.
· The more you
plan the luckier you get.
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