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PM humor: Project Management Proverbs from MH Roberts

July 27, 2006 from Raven's Brain: Project Management Humor

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I stumbled on some fun Project Management Proverbs written by Mike Harding Roberts and wanted to share a few:
  • The same work under the same conditions will be estimated differently by ten different estimators or by one estimator at ten different times.
  • 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.
  • If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
  • Too few people on a project can't solve the problems - too many create more problems than they solve.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything.
  • Difficult projects are easy, impossible projects are difficult, miracles are a little trickier.MLHR
  • The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of meeting the date is forgotten.
  • What is not on paper has not been said.
  • If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.
  • A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.

These project management proverbs are funny, sometimes sad and ironic, and usually spot on. You can read the complete list of proverbs here: http://www.project-training-uk.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm. The site also contains links to 2 other PM humor/satire pages from MH Roberts: Project Management Truths and Project Management Laws and Sayings. Enjoy!

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