Quotes About Project Planning

#1. By far the most common project risks in software development are poor requirements and poor project planning, thus preparation tends to focus on improving requirements and project plans.

Steve McConnell

#2. I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.

Jamie Dornan

#3. It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. He who learns death unlearns slavery.

Cornel West

#5. 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

#6. It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. When project leaders focus on delivery, they add value to projects. When they focus on planning and control, they tend to add overhead.

Jim Highsmith

#8. Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

Amy Grant

#9. It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

Sally Gardner

#10. Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought ... about potential pitfalls.

Bobby Knight

#11. Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.

Jennie Finch

#12. For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Robert Genn

#13. Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.

Graham Speechley

#14. The NCI ... Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer.

June Goodfield

#15. Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

Harold Kerzner

#16. Maybe they're planning the next Project. They could mail snowballs to the weather-deprived children in Texas. They could knit goat-hair blankets for shorn sheep.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model.

Jim Highsmith

#18. Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

Jude Bijou

#19. The project manager accomplishes this goal through planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve goals.

D. Williams

#20. This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

Adam Hasner

#21. Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Catherynne M Valente

#22. You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

Woody Harrelson

#23. I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer.

Liu Xia

#24. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

Anne Fadiman