A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Third Edition 2004
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Project Management Session # 1 - Introduction
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Project Management Proverbs
  • * It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women

  • * 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.

  • * If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

  • * Too few people on a project can't solve the problems - too many create more problems than they solve.

  • * A problem shared is a buck passed.

  • * 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.

  • * A user is somebody who tells you what they want the day you give them what they asked for.

  • * Of several possible interpretations of a communication, the least convenient is the correct one.

  • * What you don't know hurts you.

  • * 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.

  • * I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.

  • * Estimators do it in groups - bottom up and top down.

  • * Good estimators aren't modest: if it's huge they say so.

  • * The sooner you begin coding the later you finish.

  • * A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  • * What is not on paper has not been said.

  • * If you dont know where youre going, any road will take you there.

  • * If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

  • * If you don't attack the risks, the risks will attack you.

  • * 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 at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

  • * Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after.

  • * Feather and down are padding - changes and contingencies will be real events.

  • * There are no good project managers - only lucky ones.

  • * The more you plan the luckier you get.
by Shravan Chinnagangannagari on Sep 25, 2006
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