Quotation Wall

On Project Management

• The goal of a project is the benefit, not that product.  – Jay Siegelaub
• Strategy is what takes a pool of projects and makes them into a program.  – Spencer Chappell
• I share information, I don’t share data.  – Travis Ma
• There is risk acceptance and there is risk acknowledgement, be sure you know which you’ve been given.  – me
• We make sure that the product is built right, not that the right product is built.  – Andreas Lemos on requirements gathering
• You get what you inspect, not what you expect.  – Dave Warrick
• Some people have 10 years of experience. Others 1 year, 10 times. — @bbart
• Managing projects requires you to be part Glinda the Good Witch & part Wicked Witch of the West.  – @ditucci
• Don’t spend time justifying why a project is behind time and over budget; find a way to get it on time and on budget, because it’s your signature on that project.   It’s your legacy.  It’s your portfolio of success that you’re building. — PMI Today, March 2009.
• Most project managers think that the 3 most important factors to getting a project done are Time, Money, Resources. In fact, the most important factors are Will Power, COMMITMENT, then Time, Money, and Resources.  – Via Alan Ho

Misc good thoughts

• The little things ARE the big things.  – me
• Bad habits are magnified in an environment of scarce resources (time, money, people, etc.). We all have bad habits.  – John Creighton
• Do not mistake my act of kindness for a sign of weakness.  – me
• Pros get paid but amateurs are driven.  – Alec Muffett on open source software
• Not everything that counts can be counted, not everything that can be counted counts. — Albert Einstein
• Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.  – unknown
• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. — Henry Kissinger
• Public 1-1’s never go as planned.  – Jerry Hunter

Just plain funny

• You can’t please all of the people all of the time… so just focus on pleasing your spouse and your boss and life will go pretty well.  – me
• I don’t disagree that it’s not something that shouldn’t be killed.  – John Saino
• I’ll take one… I’m a human garbage disposal. — Michelle Evans when offered a brownie
• Are you buying the fish that I am selling to you?  – Max Raynor while trying to convince our team of something.
• When people ask me what I miss about being Secretary of State I tell them I miss my airplane.  – Colin Powell
• Are you having a problem with your mother?  No, but I think she’s having a problem with me!  – overheard conversation
• Knowing is half the battle… the other half is getting your ass kicked by people smarter than you. — me
• The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t have that rule when Jesus was born!  – @FunnyJoker
• She is the perfect wife, she cooks, cleans, mends, socializes… One of these days she’s gonna melt down;  I hope I’m out of town that day!  – unknown