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Article Quality Management, Risk Management, Benefits Realization, Stakeholder Engagement 1 April 2017

PM Network

Extra Effort

By Hussain, Waqar Waqar Hussain, PMP, provides three approaches to take to complete projects delayed or complicated by client-side problems: Improve clients' capabilities; Engage during delays; and Pick up the…

Article Quality Management, Complexity, Benefits Realization 1 September 2016

PM Network

Full house

By Howlett, Sarah Protzman As the U.K.'s largest casino resort, Resorts World Birmingham caters to high rollers. But long before it opened in October 2015 in Birmingham, England, the project team was going all in the ensure…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Benefits Realization 11 May 2015

Beyond on-time and under-budget

By Burk, Susan M. This paper encourages moving beyond assessing project execution toward additionally examining whether or not a project has delivered its intended outcome. It offers considerations for assessing the…

Article Quality Management, Benefits Realization February 2015

Project Management Journal

The relationship between project success and project efficiency

By Serrador, Pedro | Turner, Rodney Many researchers have suggested that meeting time, scope, and budget goals, sometimes called 'project efficiency,' is not the comprehensive measure of project success. Broader measures of success…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Benefits Realization 29 July 2014

Project benefit management

By Zwikael, Ofer | Chih, Ying-Yi Realizing benefits is an important criterion to evaluate project performance. Hence, project benefit management is essential to enhance project success. This paper focuses on the first step in the…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Benefits Realization, Cost Management, Technical Skills 23 October 2012

How to make earned value work on your project

By Lukas, Joseph A. Earned value analysis (EVA) appears to be a compelling technique to use on projects to better understand and manage performance. Companies embracing earned value prepare procedures and may provide…

Conference Paper Strategy, Quality Management, Benefits Realization, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 23 October 2012

Earned value management

By Heinlein, J. W. | Craig, Christopher | Perotti, John | Pearson, Megan | Wooten, Teressa | Balderson, Lucas Growing pressure on federal budgets creates the strategic imperative to increase the transparency of the performance of agencies' mission-critical investments, as well as heighten their realized…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Benefits Realization 23 October 2012

Achieve project success by delivering business value

By James, Vicki M. There is a change in the understanding of project success in the air these days. Conduct an Internet search and you will find that focus is shifting from projects that deliver on time, budget, and…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Benefits Realization 23 October 2012

Revisiting the definition of project success

By Cavarec, Yves The triple constraint should be used when monitoring and controlling to check whether the project is deviating from its baseline. It is common to use scope, time, and costs in statistics to separate…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Benefits Realization, Earned Value Management 23 October 2012

TCPI

By Scott, William J. This paper examines the to-complete performance index (TCPI) as one of the forecasting tools of earned value management (EVM). It explores why project personnel should care about earned value…