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- Don't surprise OMB with a falsified EVM
- The Office of Management and Budget, cow-towing to congressional pressure, gave agencies until Dec. 31 to create a mandatory plan for using earned value management EVM to assess major IT projects, reports GovExec.com.Project managers use EVMs to evaluate a project's progress measured against its estimated cost and schedule, and allows...
- Tags: earned value management
- Blog posts 2006-01-09
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- Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences
- Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...
- Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Project Management Formula Calculations 1.0 (Mobile)
- The app allows data input into the templateEarned Value Cost:Cost Variance CPI Cost Performance Index Earned Value Actual Cost Expected Monetary Value Benefit Cost Ratio Cost Benefit Ratio Earned Value Schedule:Earned Value alt method Schedule Variance Schedule Performance Index Planned Value Estimate at Completion (4 formulas) Estimate to completion (3...
- Tags: Mobile, Formula, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-07-17
- Asta Powerproject 10.0.04 build 053 (Windows)
- Asta Powerproject is a professional project management software tool that is specifically designed to plan and deliver projects on time and within budget. This proven project management tool offers a comprehensive range of project planning, resource and cost management features that are both powerful and easy to use. A familiar,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Asta Powerproject, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Strategy, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- Top-level job openings rebound in May; Midwest, West slowest to recover
- The number of job openings for C-level, VP, Director and managerial candidates improved in May for the first time since November 2008, according to recent data from CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index, which measures managerial recruitment activity across the United States. Despite the May hike, managerial job listings have...
- Tags: Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Goodbye, SOX?
- Goodbye, SOX?What! No!The "Credit Crunch" meant nothing to me, but kill SOX and who will pay my outrageous SOX consulting fees.I'll be ruined!It's about time.Sarbox is a failure. The Siemens corruption case was in complliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.You don't have to look far to see that Congress knows nothing about...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbox, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, goodbye
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Apple versus Apple: How Many iPhones Does It Take To Add $5 To A Stock Price?
- How many iPhones will Apple have to sell next year, to justify a $5 bump upward in its stock price? 22.9 million, says a small number-crunching shop, operating mostly out of Mumbai. That sounds like a lot. Last year, Apple...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Stock Price, Stock, Apple Inc., Transparent Value, Investment, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Earned Value Lite: Making Earned Value Management Work for Every Project
- The criteria for earned value management, or EVM-a technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner-were developed for major systems acquisitions. They tend to be overly prescriptive for smaller projects, which discourages many organizations and individuals from adopting them. Now, however, organizations and individuals can adopt a formula-often called...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Productivity, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-05-01
- SAP software revenues plummet, announces new deal on maintenance
- SAP has announced its Q1 results. total revenue was €2,397 million compared to €2,460 in Q1 2008, a fall of three percent. While operating income was only down eight percent, software revenues were off 33%, falling from €622million in Q1 2008 to €422 million. Support revenue climbed...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, SAP AG, No. Ray Wang, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Real Project 2009 1.0 (Windows)
- Real Project 2009 professional Edition is to let Project Manager manage their project easier and to increase the successful rate of project completion. More than Gantt Chart - It provides an ease of use interface for project manager to create Work Breakdown Structure WBS, Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, Critical Path,Team...
- Tags: Gantt Chart, Project Manager, Microsoft Windows, Grand Harvest, PERT Analysis
- Software downloads 2009-04-06
- Yahoo swings to loss for Q4; focus shifts to Bartz, 2009
- updated: Looking at the bigger picture, Yahoo's fourth-quarter financial results - which includes a swing to the loss column and a drop in revenue - really doesn't mean much. After all, that was then and this is now. In the fourth quarter, Jerry Yang was running the...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Search, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- HP's SaaS PPM solution
- A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen â€" VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP’s offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP’s software...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?Anything putting anything ahead of customers...is sure to result in the ringing of the death knell.What businesses need to do is get back to basics. Most of the companies we are seeing that are going bankrupt or are in...
- Tags: management methodology
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- 11 "Laws of IT Physics"
- 11 "Laws of IT Physics"Communication is the overriding key factor.The biggest IT failures are a result of not communicating effectively.So do it, communicate clearly and fully. I mean communication in all directions: internal and external and both up-stream and down-stream management. Most importantly, include the people who will be...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPM
- Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPMSaaS and EVM -- a powerful combinationBrian, This is an important and timely post. The core insight that you have championed is the importance of bringing financial and operational rigor to human capital driven businesses. Earned Value Management EVM, coupled with flexible and easy...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), PRODUCTIVITY, cloud computing, OpenAir Inc., software-as-a-service, Ascendancy, tool, PPM
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPM
- EVM & PPM earning new respect In the last few weeks, several vendors have made material announcements involving Earned Value EV. Earned Value or Earned Value Management EVM is a key concept in project management. The roots of this date back to the 1960s in...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, Individual Step, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheedwill it make any difference?Is this going to make any difference as faras Lockheed's ability to get contracts?How many of the Hurricane Katrina relief effortvendors are still doing business with FEMA andother agencies?EVMS sucks...I want you to think long and hard about EVMS for a minute...first...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., EVMS, Pentagon
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...
- Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Pentagon, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]
- Given the size, scope and frequency of government IT failures, it's important to understand the dynamics underlying these projects. To learn more about federal IT, I interviewed two federal systems experts from CA, developer of the Clarity project portfolio management PPM solution. Gil...
- Tags: Project, Podcast, Agency, Information Technology, OMB, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
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