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1.
No task is considered
impossible by the person who does not have to do it.
2. You can con a sucker into committing to an
impossible deadline. You cannot con him into actually meeting it.
3. It takes one woman nine months to have a
baby. It can’t be done in one month by impregnating nine women.
4. There's never enough time to do it right
first time, but there's always enough time to go back and do it again.
5. The bitterness of poor quality lasts long
after the sweetness of making a deadline is forgotten.
6. If you can keep your head while all about
you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the situation.
7. If everything is going exactly according to
plan, then something somewhere is going massively wrong.
8. Everyone asks for a strong and competent
field inspector. When they get one, they don't want one.
9. Fast - cheap - good - you can have any two.
10. No project has ever finished
early, below budget, and met all the user’s requirements (see # 9).
11. Anything that can be changed will
be changed, until finally there is no time left to change anything.
12. Activity is not achievement.
13. 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.
14. The sooner you get behind
schedule, the more time you will have to make it up.
15. The project is considered complete
when the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the building itself.
Copyright © 2007 - 2008 by the author: Sean C. Burlingham,
P.E. All rights reserved.
No reproduction of this work is permitted without the permission of the
author.
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