Mitchell Baker Quotes

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

Even if bureaucratic sloth can be eliminated, it still takes time to build things.

If the business were a play, Act One is, 'Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great!' Act Two is, 'We're six months behind on back-end development.'

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

It is always impossible to expect things getting done in 90 days.

As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.

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

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.

Sometimes you think that a reconstruction project can be done more quickly than you expected.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov. I didn't have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.

One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.