Best resources on a project upfront

Project management can be a thankless job. You have all the responsibility and little direct control of resources. Like many things in life, sometimes what you do early in a challenge can make a big difference on how things turn out later. Building on the sayings that you cannot fix design problems in manufacturing and the first amplifier sets the noise figure in a receiver chain, project management becomes much easier if you put your best resources on the job upfront.