Goals

"If you can't really achieve victory, just change the goalposts to something easier and claim you won.

I used to have a Project Manager who did that for his trainwreck projects. His projects were *always* successful. Unfinished requirements became "future enhancements". Non-working projects became "proof of concepts". Half-baked projects became "prototypes".

The wonderful thing about project schedules and requirements is nobody saves the previous version.

Nobody has ever underestimated the gullibility of upper-managers.

And nobody has ever underestimated the gullibility of people who read industry press
releases."

I forget where I read this, probably slashdot, but I thought it was pretty funny.