Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
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.