http://www.jandrconsult.com/blogs/brian/archives/2005/02/the_delicate_ba.shtml Every LIMS project delicately balances schedule, quality, and resources (costs). Project managers know implicitly that affecting any one of the project elements will affect another. Reducing resources will affect either quality or schedule. Adding quality may increase the resource needs or schedule (or likely both). Every project experiences change and forces project managers to make a decision. That decision should be based on the predefined priorities of the project definition.... en-us http://www.jandrconsult.com/blogs/jason/archives/2005/03/maintaining_qua.shtml Although rarely admitted quality is most often not the highest priority during application development. If it was then the project would have un-restricted budget and the application "would be ready when it's ready".... http://www.jandrconsult.com/blogs/john/archives/2005/03/the_evolving_tr.shtml Most project managers and team members are familiar with the quality - cost - time triangle see The Delicate Balance. It represents the dependencies between competing aspects of a project. Some models label the sides of the triangle as scope, cost and ...