Project Management Truisms

原文链接：http://www.mariosalexandrou.com/blog/?p=67


挺有意思的，于是加了一些自己的点评。

1. Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
   
   不记得有多少次，我总是对很多事情想当然，前提是不是我做。但是一旦是要我做的话，就会有很多抗拒的理由了。所以，站着说话不腰疼就是这个意思。
   
   
2. You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it.
   
   你可以通过各种方式骗一个人答应你完成某事，但是你并不能保证他就一定能够兑现。所以，任何的承诺，都应该是在双方充分了解的情况下，经过理智思考而做出的决定，这样的承诺才会比较容易兑现。
   
   
3. At the heart of every large project is a small project trying to get out.
   
   
   
4. The more desperate the situation the more optimistic the situatee.
   
   一旦事情搞砸了，就会有人希望情况更糟，因为可以浑水摸鱼。摊子全烂了才好，这样就不用收拾了，否则还要擦屁股。
   
   
5. A change freeze is like the abominable snowman: it is a myth and would melt anyway when heat is applied.
   
   需求不改变，这只是一厢情愿而已，一旦有个风吹草动就坚持不住了。所以，要时刻准备着应对变化。
   
   
6. A user will tell you anything you ask, but nothing more.
   
   只有问对了正确的问题，你才能得到准确的用户需求。不正确的问题，只能让你误入歧途。虽然说需求来自用户，但还需要我们进行大量的分析和加工。
   
   
7. Of several possible interpretations of a communication, the least convenient is the correct one.
   
   朗朗上口的口号和说辞，听起来很动人，可不一定正确。
   
   
8. There's never enough time to do it right first time but there's always enough time to go back and do it again.
   
   开始时急于完工，很多细节容不得好好考虑。到了后期，虽然时间充裕，却又不愿意去修改完善了，而留下了永远的遗憾。
   
   
9. The bitterness of poor quality lasts long after the sweetness of making a date is forgotten.
   
   虽然按时完工了，但是糟糕的质量会在随后的日子里一直纠缠着你。有人说产品发布的时候，工作才刚刚开始而不是结束。
   
   
10. I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
    
    虽然你说明白了，但是你想的真的和我想表达的是一个意思么？很多时候，根本就不是一回事，每个人想的都只是自己认为的东西。
    
    
11. What is not on paper has not been said.
    
    口说无凭，一定要写下来。白纸黑字的，大家才会认真对待。
    
    
12. A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.
    
    做最坏的打算，这样事情就不会比这个更坏了。
    
    
13. If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the plan.
    
    
    
    
14. If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
    
    隐藏所有自己曾经失败过的痕迹，只留下漂亮的成绩单。
    
    
15. Feather and down are padding, changes and contingencies will be real events.
    
    变化是常态，不变才是奇怪。
    
    
16. There are no good project managers - only lucky ones.
    
    没有好的项目经理，只有幸运的。偶尔的成功并不代表什么，只能说你运气好而已。
    
    
17. The more you plan the luckier you get.
    
    计划并不能保证你可以按时完成，但是可以让你不断的接近事实，更有机会按时完成而已。
    
    
18. A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant leap for the project manager.
    
    项目的成败，维系在项目经理的身上，可谓责任重大。
    
    
19. Good project management is not so much knowing what to do and when, as knowing what excuses to give and when.
    
    好的项目经理往往更擅长于在合适的时候给出合适的借口，而不是在正确的时间做正确的事情。
    
    
20. If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.
    
    当一切一帆风顺的时候，你可要小心了，肯定有很大的问题被隐藏了。
    
    
21. Everyone asks for a strong project manger - when they get one, they don't want one.
    
    在差的项目经理手下干活，不一定辛苦。在好的项目经理手下干活，不一定轻松。让所有人满意，这是不现实的。