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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

MPUG

I intend to cover the following in upcoming publications on MPUG: Understanding Earned Value fields EVM Project Case Study EVM Reports. EVM in Microsoft Project. I look forward to starting a series of articles on how to use EVM in Microsoft Project, including best practices.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Part 3 of the book covers agile and hybrid project management in complex settings, and there are a couple of case studies in appendices to further help you understand how the methods work in real life. Buy on Amazon. Agile Practice Guide. This is also the best agile book for the PMP ® exam.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . Resources. [1] and Steece, B.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Herding Cats

The Measures that are modeled in the Cone of Uncertainty are the Quantitative basis of a control process that establishes the goal for the performance measures. This is a closed loop control system for managing the program with a T echnical Performance Measure (TPM). Resources. [1] and Steece, B. 10] Boehm, B.,

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Herding Cats

When actual measures of cost, schedule, and technical performance are outside the planned cone of uncertainty, corrective actions must be taken to move those uncertanties inside the cone of uncertanty, if the project is going to meet it's cost, schedule, and technical performance goals. . and Steece, B. 10] Boehm, B.,

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Next Generation Project Management Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Comparing Tools Against A Case Study. Instead of taking that approach, the research focused on proving the functionality of tools through the use of a real 7-page case study that required the use of the most relevant project management and team collaboration functionalities. They were able to try the case study on 48.

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Customers Tip of the Day: How to Give a High-Level Project Overview to Customers and Upper Management

Wrike

Take a look at how the Swift Performance Equipment team approaches planning! Swift Performance Equipment is a world-class producer of athletic performance measuring products. Customer’s background. Every day, they help thousands of people to achieve greater sports results.