Bill Holmes
The Process Groups Practice Guide replaces the predictive portion of the PMBOK® 6th Edition
“There are only two options: make progress or make excuses.” Tony Robbins “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” Thor...
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Bill Holmes
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Time for a "Master Project Manager" Certification?
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.” Peter Drucker “No man ever reached to excellence in any one...
Bill Holmes
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Scoring my COVID Predictions Part 4 - The Fall of the Globalist
“Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honor and courage!” Mehmet Murat ildan “To sin by silence when they should...
Bill Holmes
- Sep 4, 2021
- 3 min
Things every young person needs to know about money - Chapter 4 – The Time Value of Money
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.” Albert Einstein...
Bill Holmes
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
Project Management Basics – Chapter 16 – Agile – Product Roadmap
“Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” Richard Cushing “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final...
Bill Holmes
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
Project Management Basics – Chapter 15 – Agile Rituals – Shu Ha Ri
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” Bruce Lee “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is...
Bill Holmes
- Jun 19, 2021
- 3 min
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 12, 2021
- 3 min
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
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Feb 20, 2021
- 3 min
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 3, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Aug 16, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Feb 28, 2019
- 2 min
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
- Jan 11, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Oct 19, 2018
- 4 min
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
- May 16, 2018
- 4 min
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
- Sep 21, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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