PM humor: Project Management Proverbs from MH Roberts
July 27, 2006 @ Raven's Brain: Project Management Humor from pmtoolbox
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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