When a task is recovering (a task is recovering when it was supposed to have finished but it is still being executed) EV is going to progress towards PV and PV is always the same […]

Commonly EVM has seen a very good acceptance in projects of very big dimension (usually called multi-million dollar projects) and unfortunately it’s also been a general practice to disregard the use of EVM in small projects (up

Hi, Want to know what is the relationship between the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) and Earned Value? There is a great article about it at http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?articleID=6099&TopicID=3 Now that more and more European companies worry about

Hi, The art/science of managing people on a project environment is one of the most important aspects of project management. The project team quality is as good as the quality of the actions of the

Does a project charter need to be constructed for every project that is small and usually executed by the organization? Although a project is a unique endeavour there are in some organizations certain project types

Currently I am mentoring three project managers who work in a project management office for a financial services company. The PMO has a meeting every two weeks with the executive team to review strategic investments.

This week I was discussing the need for milestone visibility. Strange topic to be discussing, but it happened! The conversation begun as I was making a point to allow the PM tool (in this case

I just finished a project assessment at the request of a client who said her top project was the implementation of a new system. The project was approximately 18 weeks behind schedule when I was

Last week I distributed a lessons learned document to my project sponsor, project team and end users. The project kicked off about four months ago and we have converted two of eight warehouses from one

Yesterday I was teaching a class on project management and used a baseball analogy to explain the role of the project manager and that the project manager is just one of many team members that