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New DAU EVM Gold Card

The Defense Acquisition University published the Earned Value Management Gold Card. Print this doubled sides, laminate it, put it in your notebook. This is the description of how Earned Value Management works, not just on defense programs but on any... Read more →

EV Doesn't Measure Quality - This is Not True

There was a conversation about how EV does not include measures of quality. This of course is not true. The previous posts speaks to the NDIA EVMIG's guidance. But here's a clip from the DoD report to Congress regarding this... Read more →

EV, Techncial Performance Measures, and Good Deployment

The post on The Value of Earned Value, brought out several comments that need pictures to address. Elisabeth Bucci mentioned that she's not seen Earned Value Management properly in place. The National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) Earned Value Management Intent... Read more →

The Value of Earned Value

In some circles, the notion of Earned Value is lost. I've heard this more times than I would have expected. Sometimes well known voices in the Project Management and Lean community. Here's a clip from a briefing I'm building for... Read more →

Don't Do Stupid Things On Purpose

Listening to NPR's Science Friday on the way home from the airport today. They were talking about cyber security. A DOE guy was speaking about the cyber counter measures they use. We had a room full of counter measures guys... Read more →

Where Are You On Your Project

Working an IBR prep set of activities and came across a picture we used a few years back while working a proposal team. We'd move the "you are here" tag up or down dependeing on how the proposal was going.... Read more →