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 2:

1. A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.
2. If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven’t understood the plan.
3. If at first you don’t succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
4. Feather and down are padding, changes and contingencies will be real events.
5. There are no good project managers - only lucky ones.
6. The more you plan the luckier you get.
7. A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant leap for the project manager.
8. Good project management is not so much knowing what to do and when, as knowing what excuses to give and when.
9. If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.
10. Everyone asks for a strong project manger - when they get one, they don’t want one.