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1. Technical notes on statistics
While most project management courses rely on slides and textbooks, additional background material is available for students who want to explore topics in more depth. These resources include a list of commonly used abbreviations and a short introduction to the statistical concepts behind PERT and SRA, as well as technical articles on normal distribution calculations.
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2. PM student guide
After completing a project management course, you may wonder how to translate theoretical principles into daily practice and how to prepare effectively for the written exam. Two practical brochures are available to support you in this process: one focuses on applying project management concepts in real projects, and the other provides guidance on how to study and prepare for the course in a structured way.
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3. Popular articles
Members of the Operations Research & Scheduling group have contributed extensively to professional journals such as the Journal of Modern Project Management and The Measurable News. Although these journals are no longer active, the articles remain freely available for download below.
The group now shares its popular articles primarily through Medium, also listed below. In addition, readers can explore a curated selection of the group's peer-reviewed academic publications, offering deeper insight into the scientific foundations of this work.
Medium articles
2025 - Searching for the best project schedule (3/3): Combining best of both worlds
2025 - Searching for the best project schedule (2/3): Why random schedules are not good enough
2025 - Searching for the best project schedule (1/3): Small and complex is most beautiful
2025 - How to tell the project time: Fifteen year after "Measuring time"
2025 - Scheduling project with multiple activity options (2/4): Multiple activity modes to avoid 9 babies
2025 - Scheduling project with multiple activity options (1/4): Time/resource trade-offs with fixed work
2024 - Project management classroom experiments (3/3): The impact of communication in the classroom
2024 - Project management classroom experiments (2/3): How perception of risk and complexity affects us
2024 - Project management classroom experiments (1/3): The Project Scheduling Game
2024 - Project schedule adherence: Measuring project performance differently
2023 - Time predictions for projects: Comparing three earned value management methods
2023 - Essential skills for project management: Lessons-learned from the classroom
2023 - Calculating the schedule sensitivity index: The mathematics behind Schedule Risk Analysis
2023 - Earned Value Management: A technical guide to the basic concepts
2023 - Calculating the significance index: The mathematics behind Schedule Risk Analysis
2023 - Schedule risk analysis for projects (2/2): Resources in projects make it much more difficult
2023 - How to measure project risk?: Probability, impact and controllability
2023 - Project plans with buffers: Be prepared for Mr. Parkinson and Mr. Murphy
2023 - Scheduling projects with resources: Searching for the best possible project plan
2023 - Schedule risk analysis for projects (1/2): Risk equals probability times impact, also for projects
2023 - 20 years of Earned Schedule (3/3): A project management story about work and passion
2023 - 20 years of Earned Schedule (2/3): The quirky behaviour of schedule performance metrics
2023 - 20 years of Earned Schedule (1/3): How to measure the project time?
2023 - Dynamic project scheduling explained: Franklin's, Lenin's and Michelle Obama's words
2023 - Adding uncertainty to the project plan: Why PERT is not perfect, but not bad at all either
2023 - The data-driven project manager: A statistical battle against project obstacles
- 2021 – Project recovery: Project failures and how to get rid of them
- 2018 – The influence of project resource allocation on the resource capacity of business processes
- 2017 – Combining EDM and EVM: A proposed simplification for project time and cost management
- 2016 – Stability of earned value management: Do project characteristics influence the stability moment of the cost and schedule performance index
- 2016 – An overview of project data for integrated project management and control
- 2015 – Controlling projects
- 2015 – On the use of Schedule Risk Analysis for Project Management
- 2014 – Praise youth and it will prosper: PMI Belgium's recognition of young PM potential
- 2014 – Teaching Integrated Project Management and Control: Enhancing student learning and engagement
- 2014 – Blended learning in Project Management: An overview of the Operations Research & Scheduling group
- 2013 – Project baseline scheduling: An overview of past experiences
The Measurable News
- 2017 – About academic research on earned value management inspired by the College of Performance Management
- 2017 – Earned duration management for a student association project
- 2016 – On the use of empirical or artificial project data
- 2015 – Classroom experiments on project management communication
- 2015 – Introduction to earned duration
- 2013 – Measuring schedule adherence
- 2013 – Project Management using dynamic scheduling: Baseline scheduling, risk analysis and project control
- 2012 – Dynamic scheduling: Integrating schedule risk analysis with earned value management
- 2010 – Measuring time: An earned value performance management study
- 2009 – Forecasting a project's duration under various topological structures
- 2008 – Earned value forecast accuracy and activity criticality
- 2007 – Measuring the accuracy of earned value / earned schedule forecasting predictors
4. Errata & Corrections
We strive to write our books as accurately as possible, but despite our best efforts, small errors may occasionally slip in unnoticed. A list of known corrections and updates is available via the link below.
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Errata list of the book "The Data-Driven Project Manager"
Errata list of the book "Dynamic Scheduling"
Errata list of the book "Measuring Time"