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Project management

David L. Akin

It's called a „Work Breakdown Structure“ because the Work remaining will grow until you have a Breakdown, unless you enforce some Structure on it.

David L. Akin

There's never enough time to do it right, but somehow, there's always enough time to do it over.

Eli Goldratt in The Haystack Syndrome

Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don't complain about illogical behavior.

Douglas Adams, quoted in The Guardian, May 12th, 2002

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Author unknown, quoted after Library of Congress: Respectfully quoted

A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.