Quotes About Unplanned

four types of work: business projects, it Operations projects, changes, and unplanned work.

Unplanned work has another side effect. When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning. When all you do is react, there's not enough time to do the hard mental work of figuring out whether you can accept new work. So,

Ah… Now I see it. What can displace planned work? Unplanned work. Of course.

Remember, unplanned work kills your ability to do planned work, so you must always do whatever it takes to eradicate it. Murphy does exist, so you'll always have unplanned work, but it must be handled efficiently.

the four types of work: business projects, it Operations projects, changes, and unplanned work.

To my surprise, Erik interrupts. "Well put, Bill. You've just described 'technical debt' that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.

Rome wasn't planned, and neither did it just happen.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

I am the sort of person who, if there is karaoke somewhere in the area, I am that person who is like, 'Let's go to the karaoke club,' it's not necessarily something I plan to do.

Modelling was never in my plan. Never.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

You weren't s'posed to be here,

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

My musical career was an accident.

There was no plot... and I discovered it by mistake.

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.