"Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively."

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Source : Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.7, Microsoft Press

Steve McConnell

#Teamwork Quotes #Two Quotes #Failing Quotes

“My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.”

Source : "On Electro-Magnetic Forces". Annals of Electricity, Volume 4, p. 484, March 10, 1840.
“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.”
“The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.”
“If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players”
“Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.”
“Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.”
“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”
“Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.”

Source : "Toxic Parents". Book by Susan Forward, May 31, 2010.

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