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What are your favourite project planning quotes?

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Sun, 2010-08-01 14:58
Tamzin Morphy
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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
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Wed, 2010-08-04 05:25
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Scarllet Pimpernel
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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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Sun, 2010-08-01 17:14
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Tamzin Morphy
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Perfect! Thanks for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

I will search more carefully in future.

Tamzin
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Sun, 2010-08-01 15:52
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Mike Testro
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Hi Tamzin

This thread was started last year and contains most of the known quoted topics.

Go and search the topic before adding any more to this thread.

Best regards

Mike Testro
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