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Article Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense February 2012

Project Management Journal

History, practices, and future of earned value management in government

By Kwak, Young-Hoon | Anbari, Frank T. Earned value management (EVM) is a management methodology for integrating scope, schedule, and resources, and for measuring project performance and progress. The goal of this research is to explore…

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Aerospace & Defense 12 October 2010

Lessons learned

By Beatty, Roger D. To recover from the recent global economic downturn, governments worldwide are investing in large and small public projects. These initiatives are providing businesses--particularly those that never…

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 12 October 2010

Effective earned value management

By Shepherd, Bill By measuring a project's earned value, project managers can gain valuable insight into a project team's performance. This paper examines how project professionals can use an earned value management…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 19 July 2006

Phase earned value analysis

By Bower, Douglas C. In the search to find methods to improve project performance, an increasing number of organizations--mostly those in the aerospace and defense industries--have adopted earned value management (EVM).…

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 2006

Real experience

By Cabezas Castillo, Luis It is the unexpected indirect benefits that organizations obtain from practicing project management that often help project managers persuade executives to invest in projects. This paper discusses…

Conference Paper Talent Management, Resource Management, Technical Skills, Aerospace & Defense 3 October 2002

Seminars & Symposium

The defense PMBOK® guide extension and CAQ development--an overview

By Vanderheiden, Thomas E. | Ayer, Frederick L. This paper provides a review of efforts since the mid-80s to improve project professional development for United States government controlled Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition management…

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Aerospace & Defense 3 October 2002

Seminars & Symposium

Professional development of federal government information management project managers

By Breathet, R. P. The Information Technology industry has recognized the challenges and poor success rates of IT projects. The Department of National Defense/Canadian Forces (DND/CF) experience has been similar to…

Article Technical Skills, Aerospace & Defense June 1989

Project Management Journal

Project management control problems

By Bobrowski, Paul M. Even well developed and well organized projects will fail if the project's manager neglects controlling all of the project's elements throughout its life cycle. This article examines the problems…