Peter Taylor > Quotes

“A project manager was out walking in the countryside one day when a frog called out to her. She bent down, picked up the frog and put it in her pocket. The frog called out again, saying ‘If you kiss me I shall turn back into a handsome prince, and I’ll stay with you for a week as your lover.’ The project manager took the frog out of her pocket, smiled at it and put it back in. The frog called out once more. ‘If you kiss me and turn me back into a prince, I’ll stay with you for as long as you wish and do absolutely anything that you want.’ Again the project manager took the frog out of her pocket, smiled at it and put it back. Finally, the frog demanded ‘What’s the matter? You can turn me back into a handsome prince, and I’ll stay with you forever and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?’ to which the project manager replied, ‘Understand, I’m a project manager. I simply don’t have time for a boyfriend, but a talking frog … that’s cool.”
― Peter Taylor

“When starting out in a job or role for the first time there is often a belief (both from the individual and sometimes also from their manager) that being extremely busy and putting in long hours can be productive.”
― Peter Taylor, The Lazy Project Manager and the Project from Hell: Back in the Comfy Chair for More Productive Lazy Wisdom and Then Off to the Time Machine to Save the Worst Project in History - And All Before Tea Time

“A risk is something nasty you smell and an issue is something nasty you stand in.”
― Peter Taylor