But then again, why think along the lines of analogies at all? No project is the same. And no analogy will ever be applicable in exactly the same manner, except maybe if you’re really sailing a ship through a storm. By thinking of analogies you focus on the problems of the analogy, rather than the ones of the real project because the analogy simplifies – it makes it easy for you. Ship. Storm. Men. Easy. But that’s not your project. That’s the analogy. Your project is most likely different, it has different issues, different people, different scope, different complexity and different depth, beyond that of a ship in a storm. So best forget about it and deal with what’s happening in the real world instead!