**PMI CMass is physically back at the DoubleTree Hotel, Westborough! **

PDU's - 1 Technical .5 Leadership

The Resilient Project: Combining earned value data and actual work performance to meet your goals

Presented by John M. (Jack) Nevison

A new addition to the standard PMBOK indexes—the Staffing to Schedule Factor (StSF)—allows the busy project manager to correct course quickly and correctly. The corrected response works on projects as small as a two-week Agile iteration or as large as a two-year DOD contract.

This presentation will discuss:

- Using labor units to talk about value for scope, schedule, and cost

- Updating the project’s status with a 5-minute, stand-up meeting

- The three distinct responses to a troubled project’s status report

- The powerful new Staffing to Schedule Factor (StSF) (and an improved TCPI)

- Connecting simplified assumptions to the real world

- Solving the following problem!

Your client wants the project done on time with full scope and will pay for it. The project plan calls for 100 staff-months of work to be completed by 10 professionals working full-time for 10 months. At the end of 5 months, the original team has worked 50 staff-months and completed 40 staff-months of planned work. How much additional staff do you request for month 6? (Fractional [part-time] staff is allowed and the correct answer is not 2.)

[This program is especially suited to PMP audiences who are familiar with the basic concepts of earned value management, yet find it difficult to use.]

A copy of a handy spreadsheet tool, RESILIENT, will be made available to everyone who participates.

About: John M. (Jack) Nevison: 

John M. (Jack) Nevison, PMP (Retired), was President of New Leaf Project Management, a premier project management training and consulting company. He is the author of six books and numerous articles on computing, project management, and system dynamics. He currently specializes in Project System Dynamics.

Nevison has built and sold two businesses, managed projects, managed project managers, and served as both an internal and an external management consultant. He has been featured in articles in The Wall Street Journal, and his comments have appeared in Science, Time, and The Project Management Journal.

He is a past president of the Project Management Institute, Mass Bay Chapter, and a past chair of the Greater Boston Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery. He chaired the 5^th edition revision of the PMBOK Guide's Chapter 7 on Cost.

His 2017 paper solved a 160-year-old systems problem posed by Henry Thoreau in his book, Walden. His most recent 2021 paper, coauthored with Karim Chichackly, is Latent Errors and Visible Earned Value.