What quotations do you find that you mentally (or really) tape to the wall, or use in training materials? Here's one favourite of mine:
"In my 10-plus years of project management training experience, clients have never said that their projects failed because their PERT charts weren't good enough. Rather it is clouded vision, changing priorities, poor communication and ineffective time, workload and resource management that spell doom for most projects."
(F Lynne Snead of the Franklin Covey Centre for Project Management)
Wow, wish I'd said that.... Saving Changes...
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James DugganLeader, Asset Management Systems| The City of CalgaryCalgary, Alberta, Canada
A quote I picked up in a course a few years ago that may be useful in any number of discussions with project sponsors is...
"You can have a project good, or, quick, or cheap...pick any two."
This highlights that project managers need control or flexibility in at least some areas of a project or else it becomes a case of trying to manage conflicting objectives, usually with tragic results.
"You can have a project good, or, quick, or cheap...pick any two."
...too, though I guess probably it should be "complex" rather than "good" - a simpler project that is just as fit for purpose is SOMETIMES an option and can cut cost or time (or a bit of both). So there is a bit of ambiguity about cheap as in simple versus cheap as in not very well done.
But my comments would rather remove the "pith from this". Its a nice way of phrasing the work versus time versus money triangle that one often sees in Project Management Training materials. Saving Changes...
Mitch KraytonPresident| Krayton SeminarsDenver, Co, United States
On leadership:
"You can't push a string. To lead, you have to be out front and pull it."
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
