76 Quotes by Scott Berkun

The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.

Schedules are simply a kind of prediction. No matter how precisely they are drafted or how convincing they appear, they are just a summation of lots of little estimations, each one unavoidably prone to different kinds of unforeseeable oversights and problems.

It seems that bad advice that’s fun will always be better known than than good advice that’s dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

An amazing thing about our digital age is that the person next to you at Starbucks might just be hacking into a Swiss bank or launching multiwarhead nuclear missiles continents away.

Good engineering estimates are possible only if you have two things: good information and good engineers. If the specs are crap, and a programmer is asked to conjure up a number based on an incomprehensible whiteboard scribbling, everyone should know exactly what they’re getting: a fuzzy scribble of an estimate.

Imparting trust, the real meaning of delegation, is a powerful thing.

It’s rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

Hire Self-Sufficient, Passionate People.

People tell me this is obvious. But it’s ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.