85 Quotes About Project-management

Being curious and open to discoveries is a goal worth aspiring to and practicing, as well as being willing to have fun too.

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a kind of corporate project-management structure, composed of a series of key deliverables across deep time.

Businesses frequently prioritize new feature releases over fixing technical debt. They choose to work on revenue-generating work instead of revenue-protection work. This rarely works out as the business hopes, particularly as problems discovered during the final stages of uncompleted projects drag engineers away from the newer projects.

Project stacking is the art of creating projects that multi-task for you, so you don’t have to.

When the plan is executed with pedantism, creativity and innovation are like shadows in a completely dark room.

It is not loyalty or internal motivation that drives us programmers forward. We must write our code when the road to our personal success is absolutely clear for us and writing high quality code obviously helps us move forward on this road. To make this happen, the management has to define the rules of the game, also known as "process", and make sure they are strictly enforced, which is much more difficult than "being agile".

Delegation of kindness is an epidemic of success

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.