Great article in principle but I almost spilled my coffee laughing when I read it. I haven’t seen any “Active Project Management” from Serenic in any of our work orders.

Our contact is a technician on every project. We receive schedule estimates that my analyst and I double based on previous schedule variance analysis. We use that date for internal tracking and then add 25% to the latter estimate and give to our clients (Business Unit Directors). I have a project task “Grants interface for employee allocation” open now in our tracking system with a schedule baseline completion date of 5/21/2010 that is supposedly closing this week finally. While the project management methodologies that are discussed above can be very useful I just don’t see them in use at Serenic. Earned value management, PERT, and schedule variance analysis being factored into our estimates would terrific.

In summary, while I enjoyed the article I don’t believe that the Serenic website is an intellectually honest place for the topics discussed until the rubber actually hits the road in regards to these concepts.

Thank you,

Jason Wood, PMP
IT Director
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason

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