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Bill Holmes
Aug 4, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 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
May 13, 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 6, 20213 min read
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, 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
Mar 28, 20213 min read
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, 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
Feb 28, 20213 min read
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, 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 7, 20212 min read
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
Dec 2, 20203 min read
My 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 Holmes
Nov 25, 20203 min read
My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 6 – How I got canceled: He owned the system
“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” Henry Kissinger “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”...
Bill Holmes
Oct 19, 20203 min read
My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 2 – How I got canceled: He aligned his resources
“There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.” Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston “Now the only sure basis of an...
Bill Holmes
Sep 29, 20203 min read
Tip 3 for the Remote Manager – Follow the rules!
“People. They're not all bad, but do you really want to risk it? Perhaps that was the unofficial motto of the Soviet Union...” Dmitry...
Bill Holmes
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Chaos isn’t a pit, it’s a ladder
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is the ladder, and the climb is all there is.” Petyr Baelish, Game of Thrones “In the midst of chaos, there is...
Bill Holmes
Jul 21, 20203 min read
Using simple phrases to convey complex ideas
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Without education, we are in a...
Bill Holmes
Jun 17, 20204 min read
Coring Pineapples and Other Management Follies
“Listen to those under your supervision. Really listen. Don’t act as if you’re listening and let it go in one ear and out the other....
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