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There’s no “value” in Earned Value Management

October 26, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

The problem here is that EVM is based on a detailed and accurate “plan” at the start of the initiative. And Agile avoids that detailed […]

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Important decisions are not made the way economic textbooks teach us

October 5, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s a nice exchange between Agnes Callard and Russ Roberts on EconTalk. Remember — the defense resource allocation process, the PPBE, was explicitly created on […]

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Podcast: OTAs and everything else with Ben McMartin

August 17, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

In a special webinar event of the Acquisition Talk podcast, I spoke with the excellent Ben McMartin. He is a managing partner at the Public […]

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