Favourite quotes about planning

There are 3 types of scheduler; those who can count, and those who cant!

Hi Raviraj



There is of course the 6P version



"Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance"

5P’s



"Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance"

If you don’t know where you’re going, you wont get any road - Plan

Project Managers request: Keep the schedule simple so I can understand it!

When presented with a simple schedule: Well, what do you have to support that!

"A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time."



- Annie Dillard, The writing Life

All projects are work but not all work is a project

Never put off until tomorrow what you can leave until the day after.

Scarlet and Anoon,



Definitively you are good sport. Pacquiau won a clean fight and proved without any doubt he is the better fighter pound per pound, no need of a re-match the outcome will be the same.



Scarlet you never dared to raise the betting from 50-0 to 100-0 hope next time you will.



Do me a favor, watch the fight a couple of times again and enjoy.



Best regards,

Rafael

Hi Darren



Its nothng to do with the size of the glass.



Its what you put in it that matters.



Best regards



Mike Testro

Planning is a knock out, for knock out artist and for the real knock out planner.



All you have to do is be patient.



Until the last round.



the 50 USD goes back to my pocket.



See you next time



Raffy boy.



Thank you,

Scarlett

Hi Rafael,



Good Day to you! How’s Cotto now? Well, I supposed you will not blame me, I had given you the hint.



cheers!

To the optimist, the glass is half full.



To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.



To the project planner, someone, somewhere padded out their estimate and the glass is twice as big as it should have been.



Regards,



Darren

Check this one out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMGeFvGppSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGceIl_imHs&feature=related

Purpose of planning is to replace an empty mind with an open one

Rafael,



Like Cotto will start (S) hard, but Pacquiao will finish (F) him with a TKO.



.. or Pacquiao will finish (F) him with a TKO before Cotto could start (S) to realize that his fighting the real P4P King.



I’ve great respect of Cotto.



Best regards,

R. Catalan

Catalan,



If life is a project don’t rule out SF&FS between two activities.



It is a good thing CPM did not existed during the times of Julius Caesar; the Romans would over allocate resources to such activities.

If life is a project... no doubt SS/FF links is better than FS links only.



Best regards,

R. Catalan

I guess every one had enjoyed with life as project proverb

If life is a project, then,



I would prefer to live in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Countries).



In general, Projects in GCC will always get extended, hence, my life will also get an extension of time.



In particular, Dubai Projects are in standstill. What a wonderful life to live: floating.



Inshallah.



Thank you.

Scarlett

If life is a project then negative float is good, your life will extend beyond due date.



Just in case I am claiming an EOT for 30 years.

If life is a project, then one doesn’t have "spare time", but "Free float"



One also should focus its effort in creating Total Float rather than plain making money.

Shaul



If life is a project I want a few years (decades!!!) of negative lag.



Best regards,

Rafael

Hi Shaul

If life is a project, What would be the WBS for your life? What would be your deliverables?

Hi Shahul



Depends on your belief pattern.



For Buddhists there are many projects until you reach Nirvanna when float is eternal.



Best regards



Mike Testro.

If life is a project to be planned then where is the finish date?

@ David

It is a bite of both,i mean copying |& generating a own thoughts that strikes at a moment

haaa haaa haaaaa



Gr8 rafael

Hi Rafael



The quote relates mainly to progress reporting - the bulk of the work may look finished but the unfinished details will take much longer than expected.



One example I cam across was the duct lagging for a hypermarket mall - the sub-contract lagger had done all the straight runs but left the curves and corners.



He claimed 80% of the work and was paid it.



The Contractor never saw him again.



Best regards



Mike Testro

It is:



With regard to work: 90% + 10% = 100%

With regard to time: 90% + 90% = 180% so you are always late.

90:10????? I always thought it is 80:20 principle



:-)

Hi All



I have just gone back through the thread and nobody has posted this one:



The 1st 90% of the work gets done in the 1st 90% of the time the last 10% of the work gets done in the other 90% of the time.



Best regards



Mike Testro

Shahul



I love you jaundiced view of the world!



Are these your sayings or others (I’d like to use them sometime and bviously want to cite you if they are Shahul Badhusha originals)



David

The person who says it will take the longest and cost the most is the only one with a clue how to do the job.

It is all about the right people, the right skills, and the one who makes the right decisions!

Good control reveals a problem early - which only

means you’ll have longer to worry about it.

Hi All



Expect the worst and you are rarely disappointed.



If planning was easy anyone could do it.



Best regards



Mike Testro

A badly planned project will take three times longer

than expected - a well planned project only twice as

long as expected.

Planned works make sense when it is executed and updated till it reaches completion period

The very famous "Failing to plan is planning to fail".



Here’s also a definition of the Project Plan from the article Do You Speak Project?:



Project Plan - A deliverable assigned to the most annoying person on the project.

Planning without action is futile, action without

planning is fatal.

"Plans are only good intentions

unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

Refuse good advice and watch your plans fail;

take good counsel and watch them succeed.

The menu is not the food.



The map is not the territory.



The plan is not the project.

what you need is not necessarily what you want



thus specifications exist

Need teaches a plan

allow me to go back to basics, what is a Plan?



Can it be derived from a single opinion or several thoughts?



If a Plan is collectively thought and failed, who planned it?



If only one did the Plan and it failed, who’s fault is it?



I still stands that Planning starts and ends with a question mark until you realized it.

“If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.”

The more you plan the luckier you get.”



“The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.”