PM Practices July - August 2003

"Modern project management is not rocket science; it is both a theoretical and practical set of tools and techniques for achieving project success better than alternative means. For that reason, it is exactly what the world needs. But PM can be effectively implemented anywhere..." David Pells

The Relationship Between Cost Growth and Schedule Growth

An Acquistion Review Quarterly Paper
Richard L. Coleman, Jessica R. Summerville, and Megan E. Dameron

Considerable speculation has been put forward regarding schedule changes and cost growth. Surprising new findings from Selected Acquisition Reports will show the connection between cost and schedule as well as cost growth and schedule changes. The probability distribution function of the size growth data will be presented. The paper l demonstrates that knowledge of program cost does not allow for prediction of program duration, neither is the reverse possible. [Download the full paper]

The ProgM NEWSLETTER

Geoff Reiss the Chairman of the APM's Special Interest Group ProgM
the programme management special interest group writes...

Just a quick email to let you know, that we have added a new
presentation to the E-Programme web site.

Entitled MAXIMISING THRUST WHILST GUARDING THE FAN, it was presented at our 'Programme Management in a small R&D company' ProgM event on the 11th June.

The presentation was given by Mark Gilligan, the Managing Director of Syrris. It gives a great view of the smaller organisation's use of programme management techniques. The presentation was so popular that the audience broke into a spontaneous round of applause.

The presentation can be downloaded as either a Powerpoint Presentation or an Adobe Acrobat document from the Articles Page:

http://www.e-programme.com/articles_site.htm

Geoff Reiss
Strategic Director: the Program Management Group
Chairman: ProgM
the programme management special interest group
greiss@pm-group.com
http://www.pm-group.com

Data Analysis & Results Inc Project Management Advisory Column

Data Analysis & Results Inc is an advisory and operational project management consulting service. Darrel Raynor has posted articles on project management issues. See

http://www.dataanalysis.com/dataanalysis/PMCols/PMACols.htm

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