Bill HolmesMar 283 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 8 – Predictive, Iterative, Incremental, Adaptive "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." Winston Churchill "Plans are worthless. Planning is essential." Dwight...
Bill HolmesMar 173 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 7 – The Business Analyst“To think or not to think? That is the new question.” Nadina Boun, The Thinking Man, Paralysis by Analysis “The only people who see the...
Bill HolmesFeb 283 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 6 – The Benefits Management Plan“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu “Strategy is a...
Bill HolmesFeb 203 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 5 – Product Metrics Part 2“That which cannot be measured cannot be proven.” Anthony W. Richardson, FULL-SCALE: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue...
Bill HolmesFeb 72 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 4 – Product Metrics“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts” Albert Einstein “What gets measured, gets...
Bill HolmesFeb 33 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 3 – Project Metrics“If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.” Mark Twain “We are what we measure,...
Bill HolmesJan 232 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 2 – Needs Assessment“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” Elbert Hubbard “There are...
Bill HolmesJan 172 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 1 - OverviewThe best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author “Business opportunities are like...
Bill HolmesJan 93 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 13 – Final lesson and summary“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” Will Rogers “When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide,...
Bill HolmesJan 23 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 12 – Lessons Learned Part 4“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.” Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter “Never give a clown too many balls to...
Bill HolmesDec 27, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 11 – Lessons Learned Part 3“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.” Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words “Secrecy...
Bill HolmesDec 23, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 10 – Lessons Learned Part 2“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and...
Bill HolmesDec 8, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 9 - Lessons Learned Part 1“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.” Orrin Woodward “When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not...
Bill HolmesDec 2, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 8 – How I got canceled: The Final Result“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and...
Bill HolmesNov 28, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 7 – How I got canceled: They use your decency against you“A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your...
Bill HolmesNov 25, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 6 – How I got canceled: He owned the system “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” Henry Kissinger “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”...
Bill HolmesNov 12, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 5 – How I got canceled: Abuse the process!“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who...
Bill HolmesOct 31, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 4 – How I got canceled: Lies, lies and more lies!“I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Lies are like cockroaches, for...
Bill HolmesOct 24, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 3 – How I got canceled: He faked being a victim“This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so...
Bill HolmesOct 19, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 2 – How I got canceled: He aligned his resources“There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.” Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston “Now the only sure basis of an...
