I recall a time where I was moved to dig up this aphorism and share it with my colleagues: Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine. We chuckled because, naturally, your referred to other people and our planing was exemplary. It took me a minute or two to find a reference † because in my head the words were these: Your fantasy is not my emergency. Which I think I like better because it's more general and snappier. However... I'm very conscious that it's easy to sound like a dick when rolling out a quote like these. It feels judgemental and won't move anyone up the team-player rankings, which probably explains why it doesn't get said much. But not being said doesn't mean not being thought and I've seen people think it a lot about project management, despite understanding that project management can be very, very, hard and that we generally aren't seeing the full picture. So, PMs, if yo