"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
-- Mark Twain

One day recently, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, The Harvard Business Ideacast and the topic was the recent events of the recession. In talking about banks, the guest speaker said "We believe these entities are too big to fail, but are too complex to manage". That statement hit me like a brick. I've seen several projects go off the rails and looking back at the ones I was involved in, the projects were too complex to manage.