"The pathology of setting a deadline to the……" — Tom DeMarco
"The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed."
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16 Quotes by Tom DeMarco
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- There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
- Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
- Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save…
- Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk…
- What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to…
- Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
- The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
- The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
- Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
- The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of…
- The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.
- First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
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