PROVERBS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

//if you read them carefully you will find them very close to truth...

• The same work under the same conditions will be estimated differently by ten different estimators or by one estimator at ten different times.
• The most valuable and least used word in project manager’s vocabulary is “NO”.
• You can con a sucker into committing an unreasonable deadline, but you can’t bully him into meeting it.
• You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.
• The more ridiculous the deadline, the more it costs to try to meet it.
• The more desperate the situation, the more optimistic is the situate.
• You can freeze the user’s specs but he won’t stop expecting.
• What is not on paper has not been said.
• No major project has ever installed on time, within budget, with the same staff that started it.
• Projects progress quickly until they become 90 percent complete; then they remain 90 percent complete forever.