« If you can stand to read Ebooks... | Main | Project mythologies and fuzzy thinking. »

Project Management Aphorisms

What is it about "Project Management People" that causes them to express themselves in aphorisms? For an example check out this blog. Is there not enough truth that they feel compelled to make up some more? Is it that an aphorism reads well on a powerpoint slide? How can "Project Management" have more aphorisms than a more concrete science like physics?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and postulate: "The more aphorisms, the less knowledge"

RELATED POSTS
  • Swanson's uh... W.L King's Unwritten Rules
  • PM Aphorisms and a house built of straw
  • More about Project Management Aphorisms
  • More Sweetness and Simplification
  • PM Web #001 - Glen B. Alleman's Herding Cats
  • Books to Consider – Decision Making
  • Ideas about Ideas
  • Taking and Passing the PMP Exam - Part 15 - PMBOK version 4
  • Seeing Other Scheduling Software
  • Project Management Office and the Monorail

  • TrackBack

    Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Project Management Aphorisms:

    » More Sweetness and Simplification from Project
    I wrote earlier about the propensity of Project Management types to adopt checklists to explain and (I assume) inspire themselves. I keep finding new examples. Am I just convincing myself that it is more common then it really is? I... [Read More]

    About

    The previous article is If you can stand to read Ebooks....

    The next article is Project mythologies and fuzzy thinking..

    Current articles are in the main index page and you can find a complete list of articles in the archives.

    Creative Commons License
    This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
    Powered by
    Movable Type 3.34