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Project Management Basics – Chapter 14 – Agile Rituals – The Daily Scrum
“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.” Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline “We are our culture and...
Bill Holmes
Jun 19, 20213 min read


Project 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 Holmes
Jun 12, 20213 min read


Project 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 Holmes
May 13, 20213 min read


Project 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 Holmes
Apr 22, 20213 min read


Project 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 Holmes
Mar 17, 20213 min read


Project 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 Holmes
Feb 20, 20213 min read


Project 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 Holmes
Feb 2, 20213 min read


Project Management Basics – Chapter 1 - Overview
The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author “Business opportunities are like...
Bill Holmes
Jan 17, 20212 min read


The pandemic got you down? Look to Maslow!
“Overthinking is not a disease; it is due to the underuse of your creative power.” Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations “Your...
Bill Holmes
Aug 16, 20203 min read


Project Communications Part 6 – Communication Methods - Interactive
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.” Peter F. Drucker “To effectively communicate, we must...
Bill Holmes
Feb 27, 20192 min read


Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 12 – Bringing it all Together
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw “A mass of data is not the...
Bill Holmes
Jan 11, 20193 min read


How to Stand Up a Portfolio Management Office Part 2 – Making the Case Unsuccessfully
“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who...
Bill Holmes
Oct 18, 20184 min read


Agile and Waterfall Living in Harmony
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” Albert Einstein “Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for...
Bill Holmes
May 16, 20184 min read


This Has Been Done Before??
“Study the past if you would define the future.” Confucius “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that...
Bill Holmes
Sep 21, 20173 min read
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