Top 47 Quotes About Project Management
#1. Traditional project management focuses on task-level details and loses sight of the benefits projects aim to deliver.
Terry Schmidt
#2. For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.
Robert X. Cringely
#3. The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.
Peter Block
#4. The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.
Jim Highsmith
#5. Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.
Harold Kerzner
#6. Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
Kevin Rollins
#7. Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model
Harold Kerzner
#8. Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model.
Jim Highsmith
#9. That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management." She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.
Jeff Atwood
#10. What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals with complexity, whereas leadership deals with change.
Jim Highsmith
#11. Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.
Ryan Lilly
#12. Give your product a personality. 37signals may not sell the best project management software in the world, but it has personality. The 37signals team stands for something: uncompromising simplicity. Want an extra feature? Tough. If you want features, buy something else.
Neil Davidson
#13. Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.
Katherine Tate
#14. Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.
Jim Highsmith
#15. One of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone.
Charles Stross
#16. Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.
Jim Highsmith
#17. Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process.
David J. Anderson
#18. In most companies, the best project management skills are found in the IT department, because they work on a project basis all the time.
Dave McNab
#19. 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.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
#20. In short, they're a bit like a referee at a sporting event: Do a good job and nobody notices; make a mistake and the finger pointing begins.
Andrew Longman
#21. Commissioning a study of a thousand pages may jeopardize a certain project efficiently.
Eraldo Banovac
#22. Success is the delivery of a product that meets expectation
James Leal
#23. It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.
Sally Gardner
#24. Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#25. incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.
Steve Freeman
#26. There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
John W. Bergman
#27. It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.
Gerry Geek
#28. Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
Aristotle.
#29. It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.
Gerry Geek
#30. To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
Vladimir Potanin
#31. There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them
Tom Krause
#32. One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
Samuel Wilson
#33. A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.
Gerry Geek
#34. His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success
or the most to lose from failure.
Michael Crichton
#36. We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#37. If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.
GE Paulus
#38. A project is like love; it has clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.
Gerry Geek
#39. At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.
Andrew Oliver
#40. There is really more hope in turkey production for the beginner who starts out by informing himself thoroughly and uses sound judgment in developing his turkey project than for the turkey raiser with years of experience and indifferent success." - From MARSDEN AND MARTIN'S TURKEY MANAGEMENT, 1945
Don Schrider
#41. The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
Carlo Ratti
#42. Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on a project. This level can change over the course of the project's life cycle. Their involvement may
Project Management Institute
#43. Here, take my advise ... I'm not using it." (John Jolliffe)
Dana J Goulston
#46. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#47. Delivering a project isn't difficult. What's difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly
James Leal
