A colleague posed a problem recently. He recorded earned value after tracking work done in the first status period of his project. When recording work done in the second status period, he returned to the first only to find the earned value had changed. What could have caused this? One possible reason is neglecting to…

You have been diligently tracking progress against your project schedule. Your team members have diligently reported their hours worked each week and have estimated the remaining work on each task. Everything is right with the world until a team member comes up to you and says, “I cant start working on ‘Locate New Site’ because…