Karl Dines puts his first lesson in project management, the PPPP principal, to good use ahead of the impending sunset clause
I went to college in the 80s. My accountancy lecturer had a beard with a collar length curly mullet, a black leather waistcoat, black jeans and a check shirt. We knew he was annoyed one day by the sound his cowboy boots made clacking on the parquet floor as he walked into the lecture room. He angrily picked up the chalk, wrote "PPPP" on the blackboard and walked out. This was my first lesson in project management. My economics lecturer then came in and explained that all but three students had failed the last assignment and PPPP meant ‘Planning Prevents Poor Performance'. He wen...
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