If you are a project manager, then you need to read what Matthew E. May has explained in the referred article. This fantastic article is the crux of his twenty-five years of career as writer, speaker and coach. Here are a few of seven laws of projects he has mentioned:
A major project is never completed on time, within budget, or with the original team, and it never does exactly what it was supposed to.
Projects progress quickly until they become 85% complete. Then they remain 85% complete forever. Think of this as the Home Improvement Law.
The greater the project’s technical complexity, the less you need a technician to manage it.
Read rest of the laws and whole fantastic article here.
Know more about Mathew at In Persuit of Elegance
See Also:
- Four Characteristics of Typical Projects
- Five Chronic Problems With Failed Projects And How To Overpower Them With Common Sense
- Manage Projects By Leveraging Your People’s Happiness
- Basics of Projects In Controlled Environments Using PRINCE2
- How Team Relationships Are Affecting Your Ongoing Projects?
- Seven Deadly Viruses Which Can Infect Your Software Projects and How to Deal With Them
- Zen of Team Handling for Software Projects
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October 4, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Hi Utpal, Thanks for pointing to Matt’s list.
If we plot the graph of a project timeline versus effort, most people start the project with a lot of planning and little effort. Less gets done in initial phases. Then, as the project reaches the end, they put a LOT of effort and do little planning.
Key to successful project execution is to make sure that we cover as much in the initial phases of the project and cover major risks. I keep comparing project execution with cricket matches where a lot depends on how much a team scores in first fifteen overs!
Have a great week ahead!