You can't control what you can't measure

- Tom Demarco

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

- Tom Demarco

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

- Tom Demarco

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

- Tom Demarco

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

- Tom Demarco

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

- Tom Demarco

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

- Tom Demarco

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

- Tom Demarco

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

- Tom Demarco