Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.

If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.