An alternative view
Many interesting comments have been made about programmes, projects and benefits. Here are just a few:
Programme Prioritisation
"No major programme is ever installed on time, within budget or with the same staff who started it; yours will not be the first!"
"Project teams detest progress reporting because it vividly manifests their lack of progress."
"Project teams detest progress reporting because it vividly manifests their lack of progress."
Project Management
"A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long."
"If content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress."
"If content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress."
Benefit Achievement
"One advantage from fuzzy objectives is that they let you avoid the embarrassment of not achieving predicted benefits."
"Projects progress quickly until they are 90 percent complete, forever, waiting for the benefits"
"Projects progress quickly until they are 90 percent complete, forever, waiting for the benefits"
MS Project® Optimisation
"No system is ever completely debugged; attempts to debug a system inevitably introduce new bugs that are even harder to find."
"It's great functionality; but has no added value to our business."
"It's great functionality; but has no added value to our business."
Finally:
"When things are going well, something will go wrong!
When things just can’t get any worse, they will!
When things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something!!!!!"