- Projects with realistic budgets and timetables don’t get approved.
- The more desperate the situation the more optimistic the progress report.
- A user is somebody who rejects the system because it’s what he asked for.
- The difference between project success and failure is a good PR company.
- Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn’t have to do it.
- Every failing, overly ambitious project, has at its heart a series of successful small ones trying to escape.
- A freeze on change melts whenever heat is applied.
- You understood what I said, not what I meant.
- If you don’t know where you’re going, just talk about specifics.
- If at first you don’t succeed, rename the project.
- Everyone wants a strong project manager - until they get him.
- Only idiots own up to what they really know (thank you to President Nixon).
- The worst project managers sleep at night.
- A failing project has benefits which are always spoken of in the future tense.
- Projects don’t fail in the end; they fail at conception.
- Visions are usually treatable.
- Overly ambitious projects can never fail if they have a beginning, middle and no end.
- In government we never punish error, only its disclosure.
- The most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
- A realist is one who’s presciently disappointed in the future.
Source: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=881
