Earned Value, Velocity and BurnCharts

Everything you need to Truly Track Project Achievement

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Tracking project status is (sadly) something many people do with poor understanding of what to record - Recording Effort Hours consumed and materials used is USELESS for knowing status - it is what a finance function insist on but its of no use until combined with the amount of 'done-ness' achieved.

That can only be known by using Quality Control tools and techniques. The final step is to represent the raw results in graphs and trend-lines and RAG (RedAmberGreen*) status indicators.

This short course explains it all with examples.

BRAGG is a better indicator set:

  • Blue - Completed,
  • Red - Action is needed by someone (senior) but they have not yet taken it,
  • Amber - Action being taken for an off-plan outside tolerances,
  • Green - Proceeding to plan,
  • Grey - Not yet due to start

Better because Blue and grey prevent an unrepresentative slew of green and the definitions of Red and Amber are about senior support's resolution of concerns not in project failings



Your Instructor


Simon Harris, CGEIT, PMP, PRINCE2-Agile, IPMA-D
Simon Harris, CGEIT, PMP, PRINCE2-Agile, IPMA-D

Hi everyone

I've been involved in projects for 30 years and have taken many roles in project, programs and 'pmos'.

"Simon is a PMP (Project Management Professional) certified by the Project Management Institute and also holds ISACA’s CGEIT (The Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) qualification, the IPMA's (International Project Management Association's) IPMA-D qualification, PRINCE2 Agile® practitioner and is an ex-PRINCE2® examiner (when the qualification was essay rather than the current multiple-choice basis) and previously held registration as a Management of Risk practitioner. Simon has worked in projects since the start of the 1980s; the last 25+ years as contractor or consultant. Client's projects have ranged from the small to the massive in sectors ranging from construction, defence, government, oil and gas, utilities, banking and not-for-profit.

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P.S. maybe you'd like to do our risk management masterclass companion to our Fast-Track risk course. (Both are included in our £5 bundle subscription.) I'm confident no-one else's project risk management has the content ours does. Others pretend risk is impact times probability of a single event single outcome chain. Niave in the extreme but common in text books.

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