Laws Of Project Management

Although I found this article under jokes at funnymail.com, some of these are no laughing matter. A few of my favorite "laws" of project management include:

1. No major project is ever completed on time, within budget, with the same staff that started it, nor does the project do what it is supposed to do. It is highly unlikely that yours will be the first.

2. The effort required to correct a project that is off course increases geometrically with time.

Corollaries:
a. The longer you wait the harder it gets.
b. If you wait until the project is completed, its too late.
c. Do it now regardless of the embarrassment.

3. Anyone who can work effectively on a project part-time certainly does not have enough to do now.

Corollaries:
a. If a boss will not give a worker a full-time job, you shouldn't either.
b. If the project participant has a time conflict, the work given by the full-time boss will not suffer.

4. Projects progress rapidly until they are 90 percent complete. Then they remain 90 percent complete forever.

For more Laws of Project Management see:
The 15 Laws Of Project Management