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A major project is never completed on time, within budget, or with the original team, and it never does exactly what it was supposed to.

Projects progress quickly until they become 85% complete. Then they remain 85% complete forever. Think of this as the Home Improvement Law.

When things appear to be going well, you’ve overlooked something. When things can’t get worse, they will. 

Project teams hate weekly progress reports because they so vividly manifest the lack of progress.

A carelessly planned project will take three times longer to complete than expected. A carefully planned project will only take twice as long as expected. 

The greater the project’s technical complexity, the less you need a technician to manage it.

If you have too few people on a project, they can’t solve the problems. If you have too many, they create more problems than they can solve.