Project Definition

A favorite quote from my project management class is the following:

"You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women."

If a task takes nine months to complete, if it requires nine months, it requires nine months.  Throwing more money and hiring more people, is not always the solution to getting something done faster.  So, just define the tasks that need to be done to achieve your goal, prioritize, schedule, and do them within budget and schedule.  There are no shortcuts!

Here is another one:

"So how do projects get to be weeks, or months behind...?
......Drifting one day at a time."

Roman Law in U.S.

Apparently, Louisiana state is the only state in the U.S. that practices Roman Law as opposed to the Common Law practiced in the rest of the country.* It has many implications, one of which is not having the right to a trial by a jury in civil cases.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_law