Waltzing With Bears Quotes

“Risk management is not the same as worrying about your project.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“That makes good sense if you’re an Indy 500 racer. But you aren’t. (Sorry.) You’re a software project manager. The same mind-set on a software project is a disaster.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“Большинство руководителей проектов по созданию программного обеспечения проделывают приемлемую работу по предсказанию задач, которые должны быть выполнены, и слабую работу по предсказанию задач, которые может потребоваться выполнить.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“Проговорите слова «провал», «неприятие» и «прекращение» (если вы пытаетесь проговорить их, а они у вас невыходят, вы уже заражены и нуждаетесь в профессиональной помощи).”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“If you've been in the software business for any time at all, you
know that there are certain common problems that plague one
project after another. Missed schedules and creeping requirements
are not things that just happen to you once and then go
away, never to appear again. Rather, they are part of the territory.
We all know that. What's odd is that we don't plan our projects
as if we knew it. Instead, we plan as if our past problems are
locked in the past and will never rear their ugly heads again. Of
course, you know that isn't a reasonable expectation.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“Risks and benefits always go hand in hand. The reason that a project is full of risk is that it leads you into uncharted waters. It stretches your capability, which means that if you pull it off successfully, it's going to drive your competition batty. The ultimate coup is to stretch your own capability to a point beyond the competition's ability to respond. This is what gives you competitive advantage and helps you build a distinct brand in the market.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects

“The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.”
― Tom DeMarco, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects