| Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. |
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| A minute saved at the start is just as effective as one saved at the end. |
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| A problem shared is a buck passed. |
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| A project ain't over until the fat cheque is cashed. |
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| A project gets a year late one day at a time. |
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| A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. |
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| Activity is not achievement. |
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| At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out. |
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| Estimators do it in groups - bottom up and top down. |
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| Fast - cheap - good: you can have any two. |
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| If an IT project works the first time, it is wrong. |
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| If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. |
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| If it wasn't for the 'last minute', nothing would get done. |
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| If project content is allowed to change freely the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress. |
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| If there is a 50% chance of something going wrong then 9 times out of 10 it will. |
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| If there were no problem people there'd be no need for people who solve problems. |
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| If you're 6 months late on a milestone due next week but really believe you can make it, you're a project manager. |
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| If you can interpret project status data in several different ways, only the most painful interpretation will be correct. |
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| If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the plan. |
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| If you don't attack the risks, the risks will attack you. |
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| If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. |
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| If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. |
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| If you fail to plan you are planning to fail. |
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| Sod's Law: It will go wrong in the worst possible way. |
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| Managing IT people is like herding cats. |
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| Metrics are learned men's excuses. |
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| No plan ever survived contact with the enemy. |
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| Overtime is a figment of the naïve project manager's imagination. |
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| People under pressure do not think faster. |
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| Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. |
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| The first myth of management is that it exists. |
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| The more you plan the luckier you get. |
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| The most successful project managers have perfected the skill of being comfortable being uncomfortable. |
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| The most valuable and least used phrase in a project manager's vocabulary is "I don't know" |
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| The most valuable and least used word in a project manager's vocabulary is "No". |
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| The nice thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. |
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| The person who says it will take the longest and cost the most is the only one with a clue how to do the job. |
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| The project would not have been started if the truth had been told about the cost and timescale. |
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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. |
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| The sooner you begin coding the later you finish. |
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| The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up. |
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| There's never enough time to do it right first time but there's always enough time to go back and do it again. |
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| There are no good project managers - only lucky ones. |
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| There is no such thing as scope creep, only scope gallop. |
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| There is such a thing as an unrealistic timescale. |
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| To estimate a project, work out how long it would take one person to do it then multiply that by the number of people on the project. |
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| Too few people on a project can't solve the problems - too many create more problems than they solve. |
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| Users get the systems they deserve. |
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| Warning: dates in the calendar are closer than you think. |
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| What is not on paper has not been said. |
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| What you don't know hurts you. |
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| When all's said and done a lot more is said than done. |
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| When the weight of the project paperwork equals the weight of the project itself, the project can be considered complete. |
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| Parkinson's law.: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. |
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| You can build a reputation on what you're going to do. |
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| You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it. |
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| Project management with lot of documents is not project management. |
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