The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

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

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."

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.