Feb 22, 2012
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Selected to Speak at EVM World
I’ve been selected to speak at EVM World in May, a premier conference on Earned Value Management put on by the College of Performance Management. It will be in Naples, Florida.
I’ll be speaking on Using Twitter to Create a Performance Management Baseline for Communication.
Here is an abstract of the presentation.
A baseline is fundamental for EVM. A baseline enables EVM practitioners to utilize rigorous analytic tools to improve the performance of resources expended on producing a project’s outcomes. Creating performance baselines for communication can be challenging. Considering communication’s fundamental role in project success, this is disheartening and suggest that any improvement in this area can make a significant impact on the field of project management and project outcomes. Essentially, without a baseline, communication has been isolated from the benefits of EVM.
The problem can been seen as one of “what to measure?” Communication is often intangible, and immeasurable. How can we measure the “value” of a communication method or of a particular artifact?
This presentation introduces a framework for tracking and measuring communication. It will use Tweets as a sample generator of artifacts to track but the analytic techniques presented will be generalizable to creating a performance baseline for other artifacts and tools.
By measuring communication we can create a baseline against which we can apply analytic tools to monitor, control, forecast and improve the outcome from applying resources, tools and techniques to project communication. In this way, communication and projects in general can further benefit from an EVM oriented approach.
This will be a highly interactive presentation, a collaboration between presenter and participants, soliciting direct feedback and brainstorming with the goal of improving the approach so it can be of service to practitioners.
