The Iron Triangle of Project Management

Your perfect engineering project is a mathematical impossibility. It’s called the Iron Triangle,

and it runs your life. You want it cheap, fast, and high quality?

Pick two, because getting all three is a fantasy. Project management is just the art

of managing that compromise without getting fired. We use fancy tools like Critical Path

Analysis and Gantt charts to map out the chaos, but since every project is unique,

you’re essentially predicting the future. You spend weeks estimating costs and timelines just

to realize the most important question isn't how, but why. If you don't know

that, you're already over budget.