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2. Activity in the early stages should be dedicated to finding the correct questions
3. The more desperate the situation the more optimistic the progress report
4. A user is somebody who rejects the system because it's what he asked for
5. The difference between project success and failure is a good PR company
7. Every failing, overly ambitious project, has at its heart a series of successful small ones trying to escape
8. A freeze on change melts whenever heat is applied
9. There's never enough time to do it right first time
10. You understood what I said, not what I meant
11. If you don't know where you're going, just talk about specifics
12. If at first you don't succeed, rename the project
13. Everyone wants a strong project manager - until they get him
14. Only idiots own up to what they really know (thank you to President Nixon)
15. The worst project managers sleep at night
16. A failing project has benefits which are always spoken of in the future tense
17. Projects don't fail in the end; they fail at conception
18. Visions are usually treatable
19. Overly ambitious projects can never fail if they have a beginning, middle and no end
20. In government we never punish error, only its disclosure
21. The most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest
22. A realist is one who's presciently disappointed in the future
And thanks to TechRepublic for this:
"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet".
Links:
A collection of project management sayings
Project management jokes, humour, proverbs and laws
Do you speak "Project"? - PM Hut