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 embarrassment 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 have 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 introduce 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 teams detest progress reporting because it vividly manifests their lack of progress.

We include a section of humorous items in the Red book used as a reference and resource for our Project Management and Control course. We believe humor is important in today's stressful world of Information Technology. We try to include some humor while conducting our courses.

Comments are always welcome to Paul Saunders at 615-367-1717 or Paul@SaundersSystems.com.