Too Many Meetings - You know your project is not going well when the time spent in meetings exceeds the time actually spent doing something on the project. You should be even more concerned if those meetings are not yielding decisions or, worse yet, adding to scope instead of focusing.

There's an old adage that says: when the weight of the blueprints = the weight of the battleship, then the design is complete. Maybe there is a corollary to the hours spent meeting about a project and the time it will take to produce it.

Too Many Meetings - You know your project is not going well when the time spent in meetings exceeds the time actually spent doing something on the project. You should be even more concerned if those meetings are not yielding decisions or, worse yet, adding to scope instead of focusing.