The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
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."