> "All projects that finish late have this one thing in common: they started late" McConnell has a really good discussion of this in Rapid Development, calling

> "All projects that finish late have this one thing in common: they started late" McConnell has a really good discussion of this in Rapid Development, calling it "The Fuzzy Front-end" of a project. "Everyone knows" that certain projects "have" to be undertaken, but they will often just be talked about and talked about and talked about until it's too late to do anything but talk about not talking about things in future.