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As a former fine artist, I can relate to the engineers' reluctance to let go
of it and say OK -- take it, it's done. I could just keep reworking my stuff
and reworking it, because it was never good enough. I have to fight that
tendency with my writing, too.
I like this:
Q: How do you know when a project is finished?
A: When you're out of time.
(Deadlines are everything!)
Beth Kane
Senior Communications Specialist
PersonalGenie, Tucson Group
bethk -at- personalgenie -dot- com
www.personalgenie.com
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My personal favorite (and I have no idea where it came from) was something
like this:
"There comes a time in all projects when it's necessary to shoot the
engineers and begin production."
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