Best 34 quotes in «project management quotes» category

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum's values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent.

Divorce = Rebirth: forget the past, replan your life, improve your appearance & REJUVENATE!

Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.

A project is like love; it has clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

If you don’t collect any metrics, you’re flying blind. If you collect and focus on too many, they may be obstructing your field of view.

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a kind of corporate project-management structure, composed of a series of key deliverables across deep time.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

In this chapter we've seen that, unlike when building a house, when it comes to software it's almost impossible to know what you want. And even if you did know, it would be impossible to know how long each part would take to do. And even if you did know the theoretical length of each task, it would be impossible to work out the amount of time it would take an actual team of a specified size to do it. Which goes some way to explaning the sordid catalogue of failure that is the history of software projects over the last fifty years.

It is not loyalty or internal motivation that drives us programmers forward. We must write our code when the road to our personal success is absolutely clear for us and writing high quality code obviously helps us move forward on this road. To make this happen, the management has to define the rules of the game, also known as "process", and make sure they are strictly enforced, which is much more difficult than "being agile".

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

I would compare a project with a country, which is either properly regulated by the laws or enslaved by a dictator whom everybody is supposed to love. What modern management is doing in most companies is the latter scenario. They expect us to love the customer and work just because of that. There are no laws, no discipline, no regulations, and no principle, because, like every dictator, they simply are not competent enough in creating them. Dictators just capture the power and rule by the force: it's much easier than building a system of laws, which will work by itself. The management in software projects also can't create a proper management system, since they simply don't have enough knowledge for that. Instead, they expect our love. Isn't it obvious that rather soon that love turns into hate and we quit or the project collapses?

Potentially shippable is defined by a state of confidence or readiness, and shipping is a business decision.

Manager! Have brain - use it!

It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

Project stacking is the art of creating projects that multi-task for you, so you don’t have to.

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. Traditional development and delivery frameworks such as waterfall are often ineffective. In contrast, Scrum is a value-driven agile approach which incorporates adjustments based on regular and repeated customer and stakeholder feedback. And Scrum’s built-in rapid response to change leads to substantial benefits such as fast time-to-market, higher satisfaction, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage.

Strong executive commitment is a success factor for implementing Scrum, and management can best demonstrate their support of the transformation through their actions.

Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.

The success of project greatly dependent on periodic visualization of outcome.

The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers, fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

The MVP has just those features considered sufficient for it to be of value to customers and allow for it to be shipped or sold to early adopters. Customer feedback will inform future development of the product.

We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.

Change is not made without inconvenience.