HANGAR

I stumbled upon this list of Project Management Truths and thought it’d be worth sharing. And while they are very amusing and tongue in cheek, I can’t help but feel an eerie sense of deja vu as I read through them, and I guess it follows Homer Simpson’s adage “It’s funny cos it’s true”.

Here’s Part 3:

1. Quantitative project management is for predicting cost and schedule overruns well in advance.
2. For a project manager, overruns are as certain as death and taxes.
3. Some projects finish on time in spite of project management best practices.
4. Fast - cheap - good - you can have any two.
5. The project would not have been started if the truth had been told about the cost and timescale.
6. A two-year project will take three years; a three-year project will never finish.
7. When the weight of the project paperwork equals the weight of the project itself, the project can be considered complete.
8. A badly planned project will take three times longer than expected - a well-planned project only twice as long as expected.
9. Warning: dates in a calendar are closer than they appear to be.
10. Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything.