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Swan Resort at Walt Disney World - Florida - January 10th to 13th, 2017 - Registration is Open. Tables, sponsorships, and. Ad space in conference book still available. Swan and Dolphin Resort. Walt Dinsey World, Florida. Book your suite now. Companion programs and extra tickets to fun events. Available to our registered guests and exhibitors. Click to sign up for our. Our Clinic powered by. Click to sign up for our. Clinic to answer questions. On Project and Visio. Click to view or post a message to YOUR.

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How to Determine the Expected Value of Those Crucial Enabler Projects! – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. How to Determine the Expected Value of Those Crucial Enabler Projects! July 2, 2015. July 2, 2015. Estimating the expected value of such benefits if delivered on a specific date;. Estimating how a change in that delivery date, later. Earlier, might change that expected value;. Tying those benefits to specific items of product. Project scope (via the value breakdown structure, or VBS. Is referred to as an. There are many, many examples...

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Collaboration Across Time: All in All, Just Some New Bricks in PM Innovation – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. Collaboration Across Time: All in All, Just Some New Bricks in PM Innovation. June 30, 2015. June 30, 2015. I recently engaged in an email discussion with a friend and colleague on the topic of innovation and new ideas in project management. My friend pointed out, correctly in my opinion, that there can be very few worthwhile techniques in project management that. I’ve been reading Walter Isaacson’s book. Sometimes an idea just appear...

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Turning Iron into Gold! – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. Turning Iron into Gold! November 11, 2014. That old Iron Triangle is rusty! In any barroom argument, someone is likely to ask: What do the numbers say? Was Koufax greater than Pedro Martinez? Sobers better than Jacques Kallis? Do the polls favor the Democrats or Republicans to win the Senate? Numerical analysis should especially be important whenever we talk about an economic enterprise, which every project clearly is. Any time we...

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Project Management and Senior Management: Reconciling Their Needs – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. Project Management and Senior Management: Reconciling Their Needs. June 9, 2015. June 9, 2015. I’ve been developing and teaching techniques and metrics for managing the business value of projects for over 20 years. My first major article was When the DIPP Dips: A P&L Index for Project Decisions. Published in the Sep/Oct 1992 issue of. And the first edition of my. Steve, these concepts and techniques that you’ve been teaching us are gr...

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Why Won’t We Recognize the Value/Cost of Time on Projects? – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. Why Won’t We Recognize the Value/Cost of Time on Projects? June 5, 2015. June 5, 2015. Let’s think about this: for several years, he has been residing overseas and consulting on projects many thousands of miles from his home. And his consulting fee is definitely. How important would a project (or program, or portfolio) have to be in order to justify the fees of such a consultant? How large its budget? One of the fundamental aspects of.

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April 2015 – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. Ten Consequences of NOT Regarding Projects as Investment! April 28, 2015. By Steve the Bajan. My last article was titled The Benefits of Recognizing Projects as Investments. And explored both the resistance of some people to this re-definition and the advantages that such an approach would generate. This article will explore some of major consequences of ignoring this essential nature of all projects. But there are plenty of others&#4...

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Justifying Resources through the DRED: How to Repeal Brooks’s Law – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. Justifying Resources through the DRED: How to Repeal Brooks’s Law. February 25, 2015. There is a famous quote from Frederick P. Brooks Jr., author of The Mythical Man-Month. That has come to be known as Brooks’s Law. The quote is: “(A)dding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”. Don’t you know about Brooks’s Law? Adding resources to a project just makes it take longer! Think one should accept it as gospel for even the m...

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Educating the Boss – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. March 4, 2015. March 4, 2015. As seems to happen periodically, a thread that I started in a LinkedIn discussion group about one of my blog posts has led to a spirited discussion of the problem of getting the project sponsor/customer to fulfill their role responsibly. There are some cogent responses expressed, which I will not plagiarize, but you can find them here. And we in the project management community need to provide that vision.

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A New Book Review by a Critical Chain Aficionado, and What Does Each of My Books Offer? – Total Project Control

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Manage your projects as investments. Managing Projects as Investments. A New Book Review by a Critical Chain Aficionado, and What Does Each of My Books Offer? June 21, 2015. June 21, 2015. A lot happened this past week: a trip to DC to present to the PMIWDC Chapter wound up leading to a meeting with a very bright and knowledgeable CCPM aficionada and author named Mike Hannon of Fortezza Consulting. Mike had recently read my book. Managing Projects as Investments: Earned Value to Business Value. 2 We PMs ...