Software project productivity guru Tom Demarco, after a long career, had a kind of eye-opening mea culpa moment about project planning: "I thought all late pro

Software project productivity guru Tom Demarco, after a long career, had a kind of eye-opening mea culpa moment about project planning: "I thought all late projects were the same in that they were really estimation failures, not performance failures. I still believe that all late projects are the same, but for an entirely different reason. All projects that finish late have this one thing in common: they started late." -- TD