Murphy was an optimist Give me a date, I won’t hold you to it A lack of planning by you does not constitute an emergency for me Some days you’ll be the pigeon and some days you’ll be the statue If you don’t have time to stop for directions – you’re already late Plan...
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Murphy’s Law If it can go wrong it will O’Malley’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law If it can’t possibly go wrong, it will Sod’s Law It will go wrong in the worst possible way Parkinson’s Law Work expands to fill the time available for its completion Whose Law Is This? A two year project will...
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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 The most valuable and least used word in a project manager’s vocabulary is “NO” You can con a sucker into committing to an unreasonable deadline, but you can’t bully him into...
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Contractor A gambler who never gets to shuffle, cut or deal Tender Opening A poker game in which the losing hand wins Tender A wild guess carried out to two decimal places Successful Bidder A contractor who is wondering what he left out In-House Estimate The cost of construction in heaven Project Manager The...
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1. Wild enthusiasm 2. Disillusionment 3. Confusion 4. Panic 5. Search for the guilty 6. Punishment of the innocent 7. Promotion of non-participants
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(With apologies to David Letterman) 10. Our customers really love us, so they don’t care if our products are late and don’t work. 9. Organizing to manage projects isn’t compatible with our culture, and the last thing we need around this place is change. 8. All our projects are easy, and they don’t have...
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1. Excitement 2. Confusion and disillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the guilty 5. Punish the innocent 6. Distinction and praise for the uninvolved
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