What are your favourite project planning quotes?
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Tamzin MorphyMember for 16 years 2 months
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One of my favourite project planning quotes comes from Dennis Locke’s seminal book Project Management (1996 edition).
“never must the project manager allow himself to be persuaded or coerced into trying to expedite a plan simply by ‘marking down’ estimates without any justification [....] Such optimistic plans can gain a temporary advantage by serving to pacify higher management or by deceiving a trusting customer into placing an order. Unfortunately the truth is bound to emerge sooner or later, bringing consequent discredit on the company”
What are your favourite pearls of project planning wisdom?
T Morphy
www.planproject.co.uk
“never must the project manager allow himself to be persuaded or coerced into trying to expedite a plan simply by ‘marking down’ estimates without any justification [....] Such optimistic plans can gain a temporary advantage by serving to pacify higher management or by deceiving a trusting customer into placing an order. Unfortunately the truth is bound to emerge sooner or later, bringing consequent discredit on the company”
What are your favourite pearls of project planning wisdom?
T Morphy
www.planproject.co.uk
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Oldest first- 0Scarllet Pimpernel ·Dear T,
I will unquote what you have just quote base from my planning engineer experience (more than anything you can guess) and experience is the best teacher.
never must an experienced planning engineer allow himself to be persuaded by project managers, commercial managers or contract managers to present a non workable plan devoid of planning fundamental just to appease the company future contractual position and negotiation for EOT and associated prolongation cost (it may get the management bonuses from perceived future fantastic profits).
Such plans will never work even in partnership type of contract.
Unfortunately, the truth is bound to be known …
Thank you,
Scarlett
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