- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
Laws of Computer Programming,... - Design flaws travel in groups
Fifth Law of... - Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment
Ducharme's... - Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear
Ed's Fifth Rule of... - In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is
locked
pull when you should have pushed, and push when the... - The other line moves faster
Etorre's... - If an experiment works, something has gone wrong
Finagle's First... - No matter what the experiment's result, there will always be someone
eager to
(a) misinterpret it. (b) fake it. or (c) believe it... - In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct
beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Finagle's... - Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it
worse
Finagle's Fourth...
