Bruce Pittman Quotes

I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.

Keeping the risk management plan up to date can transform it from a door stop into a vital project management tool. Remember: what you don't know can kill your project.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.

In my business, you have so many things going at once - TV shows, projects, movies - and sometimes, things never actually come to fruition.

Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is to bring on a bunch of detailed design engineers and then not give them clear direction and close supervision.

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.

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.

Failure to subject the project, especially in its latter frenzied stages, to a cold and objective appraisal by the best operating talent available, particularly by those not involved in the operation Failure to advise the president, at an appropriate time, that success had become dubious and to recommend that the operation be therefore canceled Failure to recognize that the project had become overt and that the military effort had become too large to be handled by the agency alone

Mr. President, I agree that the future of our civilization may depend on the success of this project. Where in Tennessee are we going to build it?

From all indications, the Offutt runway replacement is not a matter of 'if.' It is a matter of 'when.'

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.

Americans can take on huge projects. But they need to understand why they should take on a huge project.

It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

I don't believe in projects of more than three years.