Project Management Sayings

We all have to deal with difficult issues in our busy life, so we hope these will help make your day!

• It usually makes the gentlemen in the room a tad uncomfortable
  
• The famous Parkinson's Law is often quoted to highlight the work psychology of poorly motivated project team members.
  
• Work expands to fill the Time. Cost expands to meet the Budget
  
• A goal without a deadline is only a dream
  
• Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear.
  
• Take ownership of your failures and document the missteps you tryed to prevent.
  
• If it is not measurable it is not meaningful. If you can't measure it you can't manage it.
  
• Write your deadlines with erasable markers... keep the permanent ones for the pristine whiteboard.
  
• There are only 24 hours in a day.
  
• The best chef can do a great meal with some eggs, a tad of oil and a pan, but he cannot get the same result with nothing at all.
  
• Execution without planning is like putting the horses the horses behind the cart.
  
• Today you idiot proof it...tomorrow a new and improved idiot arrives
  
• Launching a project without a plan, is like climbing a tree to catch a fish
  
• Never confuse enthusiasm with competence.
  
• Never confuse motion with progress.
  
• The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90%.
  
• The more ridiculous the deadline the more money will be wasted trying to meet it.
  
• Too few people on a project and they can't solve the problems - too many, and they create more problems than they solve.
  
• Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's complete).
  
• A badly planned project will take three times longer than expected - a well planned project only twice as long as expected.
  
• The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.
  
• When the weight of the project paperwork equals the weight of the project itself, the project can be considered complete.
  
• For a project manager overruns are as certain as death and taxes.
  
• If there were no problem people there'd be no need for people who solve problems.
  
• If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.
  
• Never underestimate the ability of senior management to buy a bad idea and fail to buy a good idea
  
• All project managers face problems on Monday mornings - good project managers are working on next Monday's.
  
• Projects happen in two ways: a) Planned and then executed or b) Executed, stopped, planned and then executed
  
• There's never enough time to do it right first time, but there's always enough time to go back and do it again.
  
• It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women (although it may be more fun trying).