1. “I have a challenge for you.”
2. “One minor change.”
3. “Rearchitecting”
4. “This new [fad] technology would be perfect.”
5. “I was too busy firefighting to finish.”
6. “I’ve been reassigned.”
7. “Let’s add more people to this!”
8. “It would be technically impossible.”
9. “Do you want full functionality or on time?”
10. “It’s not really what I expected.”
via zdnet
via wsj