Thought this was too true, from the IRM Yahoo Groups Site.

Richard Wilkens

Re: Need "10 Phases of a Project"


> I am doing a presentation on the Dyno car X-5000 in a few weeks at the
> MRHA convention in Elgin and would like to know if anyone has a copy
> of the "10 Phases of a Restoration Project" for my presetnation.

I thought there were only six stages:

1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the Innocent
6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants

:-)

Frank Hicks

The SIX were published frequently in the aviation industry as the six phases of any project. Pretty true, too, and probably applicable to a restoration program. I have personally attended many "Phase Six" dinners.

7. bankrupcy
8. nervous breakdown
9. heart attack (if old) or head trauma (if young from beating head against wall repeatedly)
10. project sold for scrap or named in your honor