MURPHY’S LAW AS APPLIED TO PROJECTS

MURPHY’S LAW AS APPLIED TO PROJECTS

 If something can go wrong on a Project it will.
 Things tend to go from Bad to Worse.
 Nothing is as easy as it looks.
 Every thing takes longer than you think.
 Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
 To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
 All's well that ends.
 Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.
 It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
 The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
 Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to the tightness of schedule.
 The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches.
 An object or a piece of information when most needed will be the least available.
 In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct beyond all need of checking is a mistake.
 If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause most disruption will go wrong.
 Failures will not occur until the Final inspection.