Author Stephen A. Deveax (CRC Press): Managing Projects as Investments

• published: 10 Sep 2014
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Watch author Stephen A. Devaux of the book, Managing Projects as Investments: Earned Value to Business Value explain concepts from his new book. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482212709 Book Features: • Demonstrates that every program and project is an investment • Shows how much of the project management community shares a misunderstanding of the concept of earned value management • Illustrates how the current overreliance on standard earned value metrics can lead not just to a distorted vision of project status, but actually can introduce moral hazard providing incentives for poor decisions • Introduces the reader to a range of new techniques and metrics that will provide customers, contractors, senior executive and team members with the direction and metrics to plan and track programs and projects as investments, and to make decisions based on reliable and quantified data • Discusses how modifications to current metrics can lead to a better view of the full picture, and thus to better decisions