I had a couple of “Twitter” discussions recently about agile vs. ‘traditional’ approach to project management. Traditional means Waterfall for most people (including me), at least in IT.

I am a Drupal fan. Drupal is an open source CMS system. I have been using it for years, probably since version 3 and now using version 6, including for this site.

PMPs (should) know about Earned Value Management (EV, EVM), it is THE Tools and Techniques for Cost Controls in the PMBOK.

For project managers not interested in being PMPs, Earned Value will come as yet another technique for project progress tracking and forecasting.

The objective of this post is to assess what are the things that earned value does not do or does not do well.

What is Earned Value?

Our next PM London Monthly drinks will take place on Thursday the 25th of June from 7pm there:
Silver Cross pub
33 Whitehall
London, SW1A 2BX

Please visit the related Linkedin group for more details: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1886694

This event is obviously free, though drinks are not. If you want to network with London based project managers in an informal way then this is your chance!

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My wife and I have completed a project together: fully refurbishing our Paris apartment, we are not putting it for short term rent. It is in Paris, in the 14th district, it's a one bedroom flat, can sleep 4 (with the sofa bed) and is fully furnished (including super mega fast fiber optic internet!).

More here: http://3rdfloor.dreamhosters.com

I have been playing with Xmind recently to produce a mindmap version of my CV.Here is the result.

Tell me what you think about the format.

I am a PMP and I live the UK the birthplace of Prince2, I therefore feel the need to understand Prince2 although I don’t really want to pursue Prince2 accreditation, so I set out to read the Prince2 ‘book’ (Managing Succesful Projects with Prince2) and check how it compares to PMBOK.

In this first article I introduce PMBOK v4 and Prince2 to give a general overview, then I will then attempt to make a link between both standards organisation.

In the subsequent articles I will go into more details about comparing the two standards.

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With all the social networking tools such as Twitter and Linkedin we all tend to forget about real life and actually meeting up with fellow project managers. Well no excuses now for London based project managers to stay behind their screens, a new LinkedIn group has been recently set-up to communicate on Project Management real-life meetings. So if you are in London (UK) then join us : http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1886694

I passed my PMP certification with PMBOK® Version 3. One of the frustrations I had with it was Project Scope management knowledge area that was essentially focusing on the Project Scope and not the Product scope. The product scope was acknoledged but still not the purpose of the knowledge area, "This chapter focuses on the processes used to manage the project scope." (page 104).

Most countries are officially in recession by now. This technically means 2 consecutive quarters with negative growth. That cannot be said of China who still enjoys about 6% growth, that is nevertheless too low to absorb the flow of new workers coming out of universities.

2008 kicked off the recession, 2009 – if we are lucky – will be the bottom of it.