Since ProTrack is a tool for dynamic scheduling, aiming at a perfect integration of three crucial dimensions, known as (i) baseline scheduling, (ii) risk analysis and (iii) project control, the summary article we have received from Glen Alleman is too interesting to simply read it without sharing.
Now that EVM World has been successfully closed, EVM Europe is ready to take off. Today, June 10th, the first call for abstracts for the EVM Europe 2012 event at Twente (The Netherlands) has been sent to all our participants, speakers and sponsors of the previous EVM Europe workshop editions (Switzerland, Belgium, Spain).
In case you are interested in sharing your ideas and project control experience with other Project Management professionals, visit the following webpages:
On 14 June, Dr. Harold Kerzner will travel to Brussels to exceptionally deliver a rare, in-person presentation of Project Metrics, KPIs and Dashboards. This presentation is made possible thanks to the kind sponsorship and support of PMI Belgium Chapter and Microsoft Belgium.
Keynote speech at EVM World 2012 was... a success, I think
This morning, Friday, June 1st, OR-AS partner Mario Vanhoucke and EVM Europe board member Stephan Vandevoorde have given their keynote presentation at the 28th Annual International EVM World 2012 Conference. We had a "top of the bill" impression since it was the last talk of the conference, in the big room, with an audience of mainly American people who seem to enjoy themselves with what we said.
Commercial Sector EVM Implementation in Europe at Fabricom
This afternoon, Wednesday May 30rd, 2012, Stephan Vandevoorde has presented a case study on "Commercial Sector EVM Implementation in Europe at Fabricom". In this presentation, he gave an overview of how Earned Value Management (EVM) is used at Fabricom, and highlighted future research avenues, including the p-factor that has been implemented in our software tool ProTrack.
A frequently asked question about ProTrack is how to export the Gantt Chart in ProTrack. We do acknowledge it is not the most intuïtive feature in ProTrack, and we plan to make it more user-friendly.
Now that we are moving forward quickly to the fourth EVM Europe conference, we have published the review of the third Spanish 2011 edition and the announcement of the fourth edition made by Kym Henderson in the Measurable News on our website. View it here. The LinkedIn conference group is also updated.
P2 Engine: ProTrack's engine now available to PhD and master students
Now that P2 Engine is used for both PhD studies as well as master thesises at Ghent University, we now offer free licenses to these two student groups. Moreover, we have added some extra functions, divided in seven classes:
