Could you please send me the invite? Thanks! ------------------------------ Eric Christoph Partner Leesburg eric@transformativems.com ------------------------------

Just got into this as a result of Michael Marcell's excellent presentation at the 2025 AACE Northeast Symposium last week. Patrick, you left out the good part: IP2M METRR measures your project control capabilities on a 1000-point scale, tells you how likely you are to experience cost and schedule overruns, ...

It's true. I was on the PMI Practice Standard for EVM team and have contributed to the GAO Schedule Assessment Guide and MIL-STD-881, and agree that standards are influenced by the most commonly used approaches. That said, I've seen a lot of projects where people used the same word for different things, ...

In the EIA-748 EVMS standard there is only one hierarchy designated as the Work Breakdown Structure. You can subdivide into the Program WBS and Contract WBS, but there is still only one structure that is the WBS. Pretty sure this is also true for ISO and every other project management standard I have ...

Completely in agreement that a project should use as many hierarchical organizing structures as it needs to communicate with stakeholders. But I think we should agree that only one of them is called the Work Breakdown Structure, and that it should be product oriented in order not to completely break ...