One of our Program Planning and Controls staff (supply chain management) went to a seminar and came back with lots of information. Three quotes struck a cord with me:
- Be creative. Focus on possibilities, not limitations - this one is for all the holders of "magic beans" trying to convince us they have a solution for all the identified problems in PMBOK
- You must be willing to take the 1st step without knowing any of the others - define the next incremental deliverable, keep the project moving forward. Have an end vision, but focus on tangible outcomes.
- Knowing how to do a thing never accomplished anything. Knowing why causes it to happen - quoting chapter and verse the rules of the road, the reasons the rules of the road don't work, and all the reasons the fundamentals are obsolete, gets us no where fast.
And a resurrected quote from the long past:
Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit - Ovid (see I was paying
attention in Latin class). "Add little to little and
there will be a big pile" - Ovid 43 BCE - 17 CE
