Laws of Golub

Laws published by Mr. GOLUB in Dated Management in 1974.

Law n° 1: No data-processing great project is never set up within the deadlines, within the limits of the budget, with the same personnel as at the beginning, and the project does not do what it is supposed to do either. It is extremely improbable that yours is the first.

Law n° 2: One of the advantages of laying down vague objectives at a project, it is that you will not have difficulties in consider the expenditure corresponding.

Law n° 3: The required effort to rectify the course grows geometrically with time.

Law n° 4: Goals, such as that hears them which decides some, will be included/understood differently by each of the others.

Law N ° 5: Only the measurable benefit are real. However the immaterial benefit are not measurable. Thus the immaterial benefit are not real.

Law N ° 6: Any person who can work part-time for a project surely does not have enough work in this moment.

Law N ° 7: Larger is the complexity of a project, less you need a technician to direct it: find the best manager possible, will find the technician to him.

Law N ° 8: A badly planned project will take three times more time. A well planned project will take only twice more time.

Law N ° 9: If there is a risk that something goes badly, it will go badly.

Law N ° 10: When the things are well, something will be badly. When the things seem to be better, it is that you forget something.

Law N ° 11: The teams of project hate the weekly reports of progress of the work because those too highly clarify the absence of their progress.

Law N ° 12: The projects progress quickly up to 90%, then they remain completed to 90% for always.

Law N ° 13: If one lets the contents of a project change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of advance.

Law N ° 14: If a user does not believe in the system, it will create a parallel system… Neither one nor the other will function very well.

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