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Bill Holmes

Jan 25, 20194 min read

Project Communications Part 2 – Assessing Key Stakeholders Temperament

“Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.” John Rosemond “Team...

Bill Holmes

Jan 18, 20194 min read

Project Communications Part 1 – Assessing Key Stakeholders as a Function of Project Length

“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to...

Bill Holmes

Jan 11, 20193 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

Dec 31, 20183 min read

Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 11 – Measures (Part 4)

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.” Oscar Wilde “It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we...

Bill Holmes

Dec 21, 20183 min read

Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 10 – Measures (Part 3)

“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.” Kin Hubbard “Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety...

Bill Holmes

Nov 28, 20183 min read

Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 8 – Measures (Part 1)

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Peter Drucker “The first rule of management is delegation....

Bill Holmes

Nov 24, 20183 min read

Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 7 – Resource Allocation

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.” Henry Miller “Managers today have to do more with less, and get...

Bill Holmes

Nov 19, 20183 min read

Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 6 – Do you need a Results Management Office?

“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.” - James Callaghan “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the...

Bill Holmes

Nov 8, 20183 min read

Standing up the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) Part 5 – Do you need a Results Management Office?

“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal...

Bill Holmes

Oct 19, 20184 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 6, 20184 min read

How to Stand Up a Portfolio Management Office - Part 1

“All time management begins with planning.” Tom Greening “Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.” Mark Twain What is...

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