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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 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
May 6, 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 23, 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 28, 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 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 28, 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 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 7, 20212 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 3, 20213 min read


Project Management Basics – Chapter 2 – Needs Assessment
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” Elbert Hubbard “There are...
Bill Holmes
Jan 23, 20212 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


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 13 – Final lesson and summary
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” Will Rogers “When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide,...
Bill Holmes
Jan 9, 20213 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 12 – Lessons Learned Part 4
“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.” Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter “Never give a clown too many balls to...
Bill Holmes
Jan 2, 20213 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 11 – Lessons Learned Part 3
“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.” Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words “Secrecy...
Bill Holmes
Dec 27, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 10 – Lessons Learned Part 2
“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
Dec 23, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 9 - Lessons Learned Part 1
“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.” Orrin Woodward “When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not...
Bill Holmes
Dec 8, 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
Dec 2, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 7 – How I got canceled: They use your decency against you
“A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your...
Bill Holmes
Nov 28, 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
Nov 25, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 5 – How I got canceled: Abuse the process!
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who...
Bill Holmes
Nov 12, 20203 min read
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