Almost every project Schedule I've seen in the commercial and sometimes in defense are horizontal “shop floor” schedules. This means work flows from left to right, progress is measured by the percent complete bar getting blacker, and the task bars organized by function – design, code, test, deploy.   ... 

I do have a life outside of Program Planning and Controls! Here in Colorado cycling is a very popular summer sport. The Garmin/Slipstream Tour de France team is based in Boulder. In the winter of course skiing and boarding take over. With the rains gone, the road bikers are finally getting enough miles in to start the... 

I’m speaking and attending the EVM World 2009 conference in Florida. This is a gathering of 500 or so Earned Value and Cost Estimating specialist discussing the theory and practice of Earned Value in a variety of domains. These domains are dominated by Department of Defense and large construction. There is not...