The Trump Administration is being heavily criticized for their reactive response to the COVID-19 virus. In response, President Trump has continually blamed the Obama Administration for leaving “empty shelves” in the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). ...
In my previous article on planning for the COVID-19 project, I stressed that The Project Management Plan for this project would have detailed the scope, schedule, and cost baselines, clearly stating what deliverables would be created and when they would be completed....
Effective July 1, 2020, the Project Management Institute (PMI) will be changing the PMP® exam which they’ve labeled as “..the most dramatic changes to the exam since its conception!”. That first exam was administered 1984! We are encouraging all our...
Earned Value is like the ghost that you can’t see but everyone tells you exists. You know it’s out there but don’t truly understand what it does and why we as project managers need it. Simply put, earned value is a comparison of what we planned to spend,...
Effective project management is crucial to meeting the strategic and tactical mission of any project-oriented organization. According to the PMI’s 2019 Pulse of the Profession Study: “…organizations wasted almost 12 percent of their investment in project spend last...