Tag: PMI

  • A PM whodunnit: The mysterious death of Earned Value…

    A PM whodunnit: The mysterious death of Earned Value…

    The Case Background In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Earned Value Management (EVM) occupied a central place in professional project management. It was taught, standardised, examined, and applied across defence, infrastructure, engineering, and large IT programmes. Earned Value was not a fringe technique; it was a mainstream mechanism for answering the most fundamental project…

  • Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Our first article explored Rosling’s Dramatic Instincts—the biases that lead CIOs and Project Managers to overreact to crises, vendor hype, and boardroom pressure. This article explores the very humans tendency to take a ‘good enough’ approach to problem solving. “Heuristics” is the official name, but it is also known as the ‘Rules of Thumb’. Are…