Sunday, September 25, 2005

I'm sitting at work right now, on a Sunday afternoon, frustrated with the status of my current project. We are in the process of re-platforming a huge number of our applications / systems. For many reasons, which I won't get into here, the project is taking quite a bit more effort to get to the finish line than we had expected. Now, I'm not a neophyte - I've been through plenty of projects that took serious effort to complete. This one is pretty painful though.

Needing some inspiration to get through this push, I realized that I had posted an appropriate quote back in December of last year. Call this post whatever you wish... I just needed to see it on the front page again.

If you do not assume responsibility for breaking the system in the way you want it broken and then integrating it to a better plateau, it will break by itself to a worse plateau. So inaction does not save you; it gives the power of your demise to outside forces.
Ichak Adizes, Managing Corporate Lifecycles