• Major Technological Breakthrough
  -> Back to the drawing board.
• Developed after years of intensive research 
  -> It was discovered by accident.
• Project slightly behind original schedule due to unforeseen difficulties
  -> We are working on something else.
• The designs are well within allowable limits 
   -> We just made it, stretching a point or two.
• Customer satisfaction is believed assured
   -> We are so far behind schedule that the customer was happy to get anything at all.
• Close project co-ordination
   -> We should have asked someone else; or, let's spread the responsibility for this.
• The design will be finalised in the next reporting period
   -> We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.
• A number of different approaches are being tried
   -> We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.
• Test results were extremely gratifying
   -> It works, and are we surprised!
• Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem
   -> We just hired three new guys; we'll let them kick it around for a while.
• Preliminary operational tests are inconclusive
   -> The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.
• The entire concept will have to be abandoned
   -> The only guy who understood the thing quit.
• Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties
   -> We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.
• Essentially complete
   -> Half done.
• We predict... 
   -> We hope to God!
• Drawing release is lagging.
   -> Not a single drawing exists.
• Risk is high, but acceptable. 
   -> 100 to 1 odds, or with 10 times the budget and 10 times the manpower, we may have a 50/50 chance.
• Serious, but not insurmountable, problems.
   ->  It will take a miracle. God should be the program manager.
• Not well defined.
   -> Nobody's thought about it.
• Requires further analysis and management attention. 
   -> Totally out of control.

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