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 […]

My Very First Blcklst.com Post

By their own definition, “The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them.” Located at http://www.blcklst.com, it’s a site that seeks to connect unrepresented writers to producers looking for scripts. As a writer you create an account, upload your script (for $25/month) and fill in an […]

Comic-Con Is Spreading

I love Comic-Con and had a blast attending the 2011 event. Where else can you hear Steven Spielberg introduce his next movie (at the time, TinTin) from a personal standpoint, Peter Jackson, Josh Whedon and others like them passionately passing out their takes on story and life? An experience I will not forget. But […]

Courage: Best Definition Ever

My son is 7 and for the last two years, we have been working on facing the things we fear. There is no perfect answer but given that we all experience fear as an unavoidable challenge, I didn’t want him to think the goal of courage was to be the absence of fear–just the mastery […]

In Art as In Life – Thanks Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy, probably best known for his blockbuster novel, The Prince of Tides (over 5 million sold worldwide as well as a celebrated film) once said that to be a storyteller in the written word: “Write like you are in love. Edit like you are in charge.” Once I heard that quote I could never […]

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 […]

Homer Hickam — Nashville Signing 1/26 at 1pm

Friend and author, Homer Hickam will be having a 1pm signing at the Cool Springs Barnes & Noble on January 26, 2013. He is so amazing on many levels, personally, as a scientist and as an author. It is a great opportunity to meet with him and speak with him And if you are lucky, […]

Conference Dreaming at Skywalker Ranch

CS2: DREAM Coming to the table on this one there was a need to provide a platform to expose a new video curriculum to conference attendees around the country. The curriculum would include spectacular film footage from all over the world and part of the planning process would include a screening at Skywalker Ranch, north […]

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Dream.

Looking for posts on the discipline of dreaming? Look for this image. Here’s the overview of these posts: Knowing what you want. Definition. It should be the easy part, right? Creating the ideal scenario? But things certainly do get in the way, and it takes courage, conversation and open challenge to get beyond preconceived bias […]