If you live anywhere else in the world but Australia there is very little chance you will have heard of Donny Ryder.
Comes to think of it, even in Australia, you might have some difficulties remembering where and how you have come across his name.
I never met Donny Ryder. I live in Melbourne, which is (for those of you living in the Northern Hemisphere) in the southern part of Australia. Donny used to live in the Alice Springs area, which is in the Northern Territory of Australia.
‘Used to live’ is the …

Project Management 3.0 is an approach to managing projects that is brought to life by the use of Semantic Web-based, emergent, collaborative project management software and that focuses on user individuality, consolidated and dynamic content, and technological portability as the basic factors of project success.

The last article concluded with the realization that the Schedule Performance Index (SPI) is a useful indicator for determining overall project duration but only at the earlier stages of the project. As the project progresses towards completion the SPI cannot be relied upon for determining total duration. The Earned Schedule approach is an extension to EVM and enables creating an index that is accurate not only at the early stages of the project but also towards the end of the project.
To understand Earned Schedule let’s re-examine the following table and focus, …

…In the beginning God created the Earned Value Methodology (EVM). And man was put upon the earth to utilize EVM and EVM was implemented widely and God was happy. And God said, let there be Actual Costs (AC), and Planned Value (PV) and Earned Value (EV). And man went forth and calculated Cost Variance (CV), and Schedule Variance (SV), and Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and God was satisfied that everything was as intended. So God rested. But the imagery of man’s heart is evil from …