Bill Holmes
Things every young person needs to know about money - Chapter 6 – Compounding can be your enemy
“Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.” Hill Harper “Procrastination is like a credit card. It’s a lot of fun...
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Bill Holmes
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Things every young person needs to know about money - Chapter 5 – Compounding can be your friend!
“Enjoy the magic of compounding returns. Even modest investments made in one's early 20s are likely to grow to staggering amounts over...
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
- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
Things every young person needs to know about money - Chapter 3 – Watch your money closely
“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” Rebecca Johnson “The trick is to...
Bill Holmes
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
What young people need to know about money - Chapter 2 – Pay yourself first!
"Get rich slow or get poor fast.” Anonymous "Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like." Suze Orman My...
Bill Holmes
- Aug 4, 2021
- 3 min
What young people need to know about money - Chapter 1 – Introduction
“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned” Benjamin Franklin “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to...
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 30, 2021
- 3 min
Project 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 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
- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
Project 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 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 28, 2021
- 3 min
Project 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 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 28, 2021
- 3 min
Project 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 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 7, 2021
- 2 min
Project 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 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,...
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