| July - December 2019 |
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Minor errors were found and corrected in the Statistical Forecasting Calculator Margin of Error sheet and the ES Forecasting Selector Calculator |
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The link has been added to the presentation, Lipke, Walt. “Earned Schedule Workshop,” PMI-Tulsa Professional Development Conference (October 2014), making it accessible |
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Robert Van De Velde of Project Flight Deck has published “Act Fast and Think Fast: Agile Schedule Performance,” as a chapter in Mark Phillips book, The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance: Agile, Waterfall and Beyond (2020 Routledge, NY). Robert is attempting to obtain permission allowing his chapter to be accessible as a paper on the ES website. |
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During August, Kamran Akbarzadeh interviewed Walt Lipke for Project Control Academy (PCA). The interview, “Nuggets of Wisdom from the Creator of Earned Schedule,” is published as a Blog on the PCA website. It is accessible at https://www.projectcontrolacademy.com/walter-lipke/ |
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Walt Lipke has submitted the article, “Schedule Performance Impact from Rework,” to the Project World Journal (PMJ) for publication. The paper, “Schedule Adherence and Rework,” was republished in the July edition of PMJ to provide a refresher for the new article. |
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| Walt Lipke made two presentations: |
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“Earned Schedule – Deterministic Project Duration Forecasting,” OKC/PMI Professional Development Symposium (October 7) |
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“Earned Schedule – Application of the To Complete Schedule Performance Index,” Houston Gulf Coast AACE Symposium (November 1) |
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Kym Henderson has reported that the Australian national standard for EVM, AS4817-2019, has been published and is now available from SAI Global in both hard and soft copy. It’s the modified adoption of the ISO EVM Standard 21508:2018as.Earned Schedule is in the guidance in Annex B as per the ISO standard. The standard may be purchased at https://infostore.saiglobal.com/en-au/Standards/AS-4817-2019-121505_SAIG_AS_AS_2761048/ |
| January - June 2019 |
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| Walt Lipke made four presentations during May and June. |
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“Examination of the TCPI & TSPI Threshold …using Real Data,” at EVM World 2019 |
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“Earned Schedule – an Evolution of EVM,” for Project Control Academy June webinar |
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“Earned Schedule – an Evolution of EVM,” for PMI-OKC Chapter June meeting“Earned Schedule |
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“Earned Schedule – an Evolution of EVM,” at Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers Conference |
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| Walt Lipke published two papers. The April article is a re-publication. |
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Lipke, Walt. “Earned Schedule Forecasting Method Selection,” PM World Journal, January 2019, Vol. VIII, Issue I |
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Lipke, Walt. “Is Something Missing from Project Management,” PM World Journal, April 2019, Vol. VIII, Issue III |
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| Encore Analytics announced at the EVM World Conference (May 22-24), that the release of Empower 4.0 provides Earned Schedule capability: |
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Time-based analytics from earned value data |
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A useful link between traditional cost-based and schedule-based analysis |
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New metrics available to views, filters, and charts |
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The awards previously listed within the News page are moved to improve access. The awards are now associated with the ES Awards link positioned between ES Book (translations) and Copyrights & TradeMarks. Four awards are now identified (Eric Jenett, Driessnack, EVM Europe, PGCS Walt Lipke) as well as the Eric Jenett Tribute. |
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The PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling, which includes ES, was released in June. |
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The update to the Australian EVM Standard is expected to be released this July. It is modeled after ISO standard for EVM (21508). As with the ISO standard, ES is treated as an emerging practice. |
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Anderson Cézar de Menezes, an ES advocate, has provided an excerpt from the training offered by his Bolivian company Menezes Pro. The excerpt is provided in the Papers page and is identified with the title, “Gestion de Valor Ganado.” |
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Project Control Academy offers on-line training which includes ES in the EVM course. |
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The Forecasting Method Selector Calculator is added to the Calculators page. The calculator improves accuracy by selecting between two duration forecasting methods, performance factor equal to 1 or SPI(t). |
