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Ambiguity is not a gift.

Ambiguity may be unavoidable at times, or necessary for a season, but one thing is clear, it is never an ideal. When serving the people or ideas you care about: Ambiguity is not a gift.

Perspective: Illustrated from Space

The attached photo is via NASA and shows a different view of the US for the Thanksgiving holiday, touting The United States has more roads—4.1 million miles (6.6 million kilometers)—than any other nation in the world, and roughly 40 percent more than second-ranked India. About 47,000 of those U.S. miles are part of the Interstate […]

Project Management and Entertainment Featured .

Recently the world of entertainment and, specifically app, film and game development were the feature on the front page of PM Network–the professional magazine for the Project Management Institute (PMI), the governing body of the project management world. The focus of the article was how the the stories in games, apps and/or film can’t happen […]

Project Libre Makes Computer World’s Top Open Source Projects

ProjectLibre is a great resource that I’ve often recommended to those who were just implementing Project Management methodology into their company and wanted to try out the use of a program without investing fully in MS Project. It’s certainly got its issues but it is constantly improving and offers a whole suite of products (ProjectOffice […]

Project Management Software Apps–Sorting it out

Sorting through Project Management software can wear out the most diligent investigator. There is just a mass of options. Not long ago GetApp.com created the helpful infographic below sorting the top 25 that was worth sharing. I have used MS Project and often suggested ProjectLibre as an introduction since it is open source. And looking […]

EVM 3: Cost Analysis

Cost analysis is basically determining progress in terms of the amount of work completed (EV-Earned Value) vs. what was paid to get the work done (AC-Actual Cost) So in our previous film example, we know that the EV was $40,000 and the AC was $80,000. The formula for the Cost Performance Index (CPI) is EV/AC […]

EVM 2: Schedule Analysis

Performing Schedule Analysis is the next part of the EVM we’ll cover with a brief overview using our indy film example. Schedule analysis is comparing the amount of work completed vs. the amount of work which should have been done. It includes calculating the Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and the Schedule Variance (SV). From EVM […]

Earned Value Management (EVM) 1: What is it?

Earned Value Rules or (EV) is a technique (sometimes referred to as fixed formula progress reporting) that creates a consistent status report for project activities. It starts in the planning process where the split is defined, which could be as simple as saying that when the project activity begins, it is considered 25% complete and […]

Winning With Offshore (and other team members!)

PMI hosts luncheons each month and today there was one on Winning With Offshore, presented by Neal Reizer, VP of Product Development, Patient Logic (blog: nealreizer.blogspot.com). Having no current offshore development partners, I thought it might be a bit off topic for me but I was pleasantly surprised. I think his sage advise could be […]

LINKEDIn Top 5%

So not long ago I was told I was in the top 5% of the profile views for 2012. I wondered if this was good? Any thoughts?