Bill Holmes15 hours ago3 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 13 – Change Control"It's a bad plan that admits of no modification." Publilius Syrus "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." Proverb...
Bill HolmesMay 303 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 12 – Training Stakeholders“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford “Leadership and...
Bill HolmesMay 133 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 11 – Occam’s Razor“Occam’s razor uses the least energy; it is the most economic solution. Nature always operates this way, and it does so because it is...
Bill HolmesMay 63 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 10 – Three Pillars of Agile“Agile is to continue delivering, with quality; ASAP and AEAP; as soon as possible; as easily as possible.” Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma,...
Bill HolmesApr 233 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 9 – Core principles of predictive projects“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.” J.R.R. Tolkien “Give me six hours to chop down a...
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...
