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When I f*’ed up, so you never have to
Lucky you! Today you get to read about one of my big fails. Every October I head back to the east coast to speak at the Earned Value Management Practitioners Forum*. Now while, the title tells you that it’s a conference about EVM, I have been speaking there annually since 2015 and never once have…
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The Perils of Being Top Dog
When you are at the top you don’t necessarily have peers that understand what you are going through. You often have hard trade offs to make that impact people you like and know well. You commonly experience extreme pressure from above and below. Sometimes a promotion can cause rifts in work relationships where peers are…
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On Your Toes-Measuring Earned Value in an Agile World
How do you successfully measure earned value in an agile world? It’s all about taking advantage of the agile data you already track to streamline your schedule, reduce redundant data in your earned value management (EVM) engine and, most importantly, save time and money. In this white paper, first published in 2016, Laura Bier worked…
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GAO Agile Assessment Guide – It’s here!
GAO’s Agile Assessment Guide was released for comment in 2020, and the guide presents federal auditors and others with best practices to assess the adoption and use of Agile in federal agencies and elsewhere. The federal government is planning to spend at least $90 billion on major IT investments in FY 2021. It has struggled…