| November
2006 |
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Mick Higgins a consultant in the United
Kingdom for BMT Sigma presented his recent paper, “Can
You Tell the Time” at the 2006 International Integrated
Program Management Conference held in Alexandria, VA.
The presentation discussed the application of ES to
a UK major defense project, Nimrod, a maritime patrol
aircraft. |
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Three papers were published in November
and have been added to the Papers page:
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- “Earned Schedule –
a Quantum Advance,” 2006 APM Yearbook
(UK journal) [Walt Lipke & Kym Henderson]
- “Earned Schedule: An
Emerging Enhancement to Earned Value Management,”
CrossTalk,
November 2006 [Walt Lipke & Kym Henderson]
- “Applying Earned Schedule
to the Critical Path and More,” The
Measurable News, Fall 2006 [Walt Lipke]
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Ray Stratton has published a book, The
Earned Value Management Maturity Model®.
Ray indicates his is the first book to treat ES in detail.
The book may be obtained from the Management Concepts
website (http://www.managementconcepts.com/publications/project_management/evm3.asp)
at a cost of $36. |
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The Earned Schedule website activity
remained high. The number of requests during the
month was 10991, a new record for website activity. |
| October
2006 |
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The Belgian research team of Stephan
Vandevoorde and Dr. Mario Vanhoucke recently published
a Dutch language paper in V.M.A
Management Jaarboek 2006, Belgium. The
title of the paper is “Waar Zit Het Tijdsaspect
in een Earned Value Management System?” (“Where
is the Time Aspect in EVM?”) Copies of the
article can be obtained from Dr. Vanhoucke by emailing
him at Mario.vanhoucke@Ugent.be. |
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The first research from academia related
to forecasting project duration from the use of earned
value data has recently been published in the Journal
of Operational Research Society, September 2006.
The paper, “A Simulation and Evaluation
of Earned Value Metrics to Forecast Project Duration,”
compares past methods of using earned value data and
the newer methods, Earned Schedule and Earned Duration.
The research paper from Dr. Vanhoucke (University of
Ghent, Belgium) and Mr. Vandevoorde (Fabricom Airport
Systems) is made available on-line for a $10 charge
at www.palgrave-journals.com.
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Mick Higgins a consultant in the United
Kingdom for BMT Sigma is presenting his recent paper,
“Can You Tell the Time” at the 2006 International
Integrated Program Management Conference in November.
Look for the presentation to be posted next month. |
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Three papers are scheduled for publication
in November:
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- “Earned Schedule …an
Emerging Enhancement to EVM,” 2006 APM
Yearbook (UK journal) [Walt Lipke & Kym
Henderson]
- “Earned Schedule: An
Emerging Enhancement to Earned Value Management,”
CrossTalk, November 2006 [Walt Lipke &
Kym Henderson]
- “Applying Earned Schedule
to the Critical Path and More,” The
Measurable News, Fall 2006 [Walt Lipke]
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The Earned Schedule website activity
remained high. The number of requests during the
month was 9896, just slightly under the record activity
of September. |
| September
2006 |
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Robert Handshuh of Lockheed Martin presented
“Earned Schedule - New analysis of schedule in
Earned Value Management” at the Air Force
Aeronautical Systems Center Cost/Schedule Workshop held
19-20 September in Bethesda, MD. |
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Mick Higgins, a consultant of BMT Sigma
Limited, has published an article, “Can You Tell
the Time?,” in the August/September issue of the
APM journal. The article discusses the application
of ES to the UK defense project, Nimrod. |
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Walt Lipke & Kym Henderson taught
a full day class on ES at the host site for the PROMAC
conference, Sydney Australia. |
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Walt Lipke made several presentations
concerning ES while in Australia. At the PROMAC conference
he presented, “Earned Schedule Leads to Improved
Forecasting.” Following the conference,
Walt traveled to Canberra where he presented, separately,
an introduction to ES to the Australian Defence Materiel
Organisation and the PMI-Canberra Chapter. |
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Mike Boulton, a developer of the Cobra
EVMS analysis product for Deltek has prepared an ES
add-on. He has made the ES add-on available to Cobra
users at no charge. All that is required is registration.
Details may be obtained from Mr. Boulton [email:
mboulton@wstpacific.com.au,
phone: +61 8 8150 5500]. |
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The activity on the website increased
to its highest level. The number of requests for
the month was 10095, a significant increase of 30 percent
above the previous monthly high. |
| August
2006 |
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Dr. Diego Navarro, a PM consultant in
Spain, has translated the ES calculators into Spanish.
He is working to popularize PM concepts, tools and techniques
across the Spanish speaking PM professionals.
Dr. Navarro has written a series of posts for a weblog
promoting EVM and ES, http://direccion-proyectos.blogspot.com/. |
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Dr. Navarro identified a problem in
the ES v2 calculator. The problem has been corrected
and the v2a version is available for download with this
month’s updates. |
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The website had a second consecutive
record month of activity. The number of requests
was only slightly larger than for July. However,
the amount of material downloaded had a fairly large
increase. Over the last 7 days of the month 25.8 MBytes
of data were downloaded daily. |
| July
2006 |
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Mick Higgins of BMT Sigma Limited has
been added to the Contacts list. Mick is a consultant
to the Nimrod (maritime patrol aircraft) project.
The Nimrod is a major defense effort for the United
Kingdom. Mick has submitted a paper for publication
in the APM journal discussing the application of Earned
Schedule (ES) to the Nimrod project. He is planning
to present on this ES application at the upcoming International
Integrated Project Management Conference. |
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The website had a record month of activity.
The requests increased from the previous record month
by 18 percent to 7712. The amount of downloaded
material for the month was astounding; it was a 54 percent
increase over the total from the February inception
of the website. On average for the month, 14.5
megabytes of data were downloaded daily. |
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The Belgian team of Dr. Mario Vanhoucke
and Stephan Vandevoorde has had another paper involving
Earned Schedule accepted for publication. The
paper is titled “A Simulation and Evaluation of
Earned Value Metrics to Forecast the Project Duration”
and is to be published in the Journal of Operations
Research Society. |
| June
2006 |
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Walt Lipke presented Earned Schedule
to the PMI-Tulsa Chapter at their monthly meeting |
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Kym Henderson & Walt Lipke presented
an all day Earned Schedule workshop at the 11th Earned
Value Analysis (EVA-11) conference in London, England |
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Kym Henderson presented “Earned
Schedule in Action” at the EVA-11 conference |
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Two major United Kingdom Ministry of
Defence programs, Nimrod (maritime patrol aircraft)
and Type 45 (Naval destroyer), are applying Earned Schedule |
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The keynote address made by Mr. Blaise
Durante, USAF acquisition executive, at the spring 2005
PMI-CPM conference is now available for download |
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Stephan Vandevoorde and Dr. Mario Vanhoucke
published the paper, “A Comparison of Different
Project Forecasting Methods Using Earned Value Metrics,”
in the May issue of the International Journal of Project
Management. The article compares Earned Schedule (ES)
and two other methods of predicting schedule outcome.
ES is shown to outperform the other methods. [Due
to copyright restrictions we are unable to make this
important article available. However, the article may
be purchased for $30 from Science Direct using the following
URL: article
link] |
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The P-Factor calculator was completed
and is available for downloading. The research team
of Vandevoorde and Vanhoucke are beginning to test the
application of the P-Factor. |
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The activity of the website was at it
highest since its February inception. The number of
requests in June was 6165. Seven to eight megabytes
of data are being downloaded daily. |
| March
2006 |
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Links to Earned Schedule website are
now shown by PMI-Tulsa, PMI-Red Earth (Oklahoma City),
and PMI College of Performance Management |
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Additional trademark symbols created
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Through the efforts of Garry Booker,
PMI-Tulsa, Earned Schedule is now identified in the
on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The URL for the Wikipedia
entry is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Schedule
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Ray Stratton presented, “Predicting
Project Completion Date Using Earned Value Management,”
on March 21 at the NASA PM Challenge Conference, in
Houston, Texas |
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Paul Thai made application to the search
engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN, for inclusion of the
Earned Schedule website |
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PMI-Tulsa Chapter included in the “Knowledge
Base” section of their March publication of InFocus,
a short reference to the ES website |
| February
2006 |
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Registration of internet website domain
name “Earned Schedule” |
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Creation and establishment
of Earned Schedule trademark
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Creation of website by Paul
Thai |
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Support and assistance received
from several Earned Schedule contributors in populating
the website with presentations and publications, including:
Kym Henderson, Ray Stratton, John Singley, Eleanor Haupt,
Harry Sparrow, Stephan Vandevoorde, Dr. Mario Vanhoucke,
Dr. Frank Anbari, and Robert Handshuh |
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The ES calculator for the
P-Factor is to be added to the ES Calculators page soon. |
| January
2006 |
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Ray Stratton’s article
“Not Your Father’s Earned Value,”
is reprinted in Projects
and Profits, a journal published in India |
