PROJECT MANAGEMENT

EIGHT  LAWS  OF  PROJECT  MANAGEMENT 

1. No major project is ever installed on time, within budget, with the same staff that started it. Yours will not be the first.
2. Projects progress quickly until they become 90 percent complete; then they remain at 90 percent complete forever.
3. One advantage of fuzzy project objectives is that they let you avoid the embarrasement of estimating the corresponding costs.
4. When things are going well, something will go wrong:- when things just can't get any worse, they will.- when things appear to be going better, you've overlooked something.
5. If project content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress.
6. No system is ever completely debugged. Attempts to debug a system inevitably introduces new bugs that are even harder to find.
7. A carelessly planned project will take three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully  planned project will take only twice as long.
8. Project team detest progress reporting because it vividly manifests their lack of progress.