Quiller's laws of Project Management

If you are new to the profession, here's my top 5 'laws'

• If you are not busy, you’re missing something.
• A PM is only as good as the people he has working for him. Treat them that way.
• Project Management can be broken down to just two major tasks – risk management and people management. Everything else – planning, tracking, resourcing, budgeting, change management, etc. all fall into one or both of those two categories. Think of everything in terms of what risk it represents to the project or the project team.
• You can control the products and activities required by your project, but you cannot control the people assigned.
  
• A Manager’s job is not to make people work, but to make it possible for them to work (Peopleware - De Marco & Lister).

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