About Us

PM Metrics is an association of Project Management professionals with an average of decades of experience in Scheduling, Earned Value, Implementation, and other areas within the field. Our advantage to the customer is that we are working experts in the field. We toil with the same problems that you do day in and day out. So we create practical software tools and processes to solve problems. We have diverse experience, in numerous industries, as well as all phases within the PM process, so that our tools and processes aren’t the square peg you are trying to fit in the round hole. Cleaning up an environmental mess is different from building a satellite, so the PM processes, procedures, and analysis need to be different.

While we offer a full line of services from providing schedule help to implementing Earned Value systems, our forte is Cost, Schedule, and Earned Value Analytics. Our tools, processes, and people are geared towards collecting and analyzing data with an eye toward producing models which not only qualify, quantify and explain, but are predictive and dynamic. We believe that a schedule not only tells a lot about a project, but also about the organization responsible for the project. Our analysis is advanced and thorough, but also timely.

My beginnings in scheduling started in my youth when I played historic simulations, war games. These are not the online games of today, but many square feet of maps combined with thousands of cardboard pieces and many pages of rules. I haven’t come across a project schedule that was more difficult to develop than invading France in 1940 or especially the Soviet Union in 1941. Just as in a project, one has to look at cost, resources, people, timing/schedule, and goals. These simulations allowed me to execute “what if” scenarios. Now to call these Dynamic Simulations, was a stretch because of the time involved, but with current scheduling tools, we have the ability to create schedules that are basically games, that allow us to exercise our options.

What is needed for a schedule to be a dynamic simulation are analytic tools and processes. A lot of effort goes into the development of a model to ensure that the dynamic simulation is valid and will behave appropriately. For a scenario where Germany invades Britain in July of 1940, I have already read 11 bookshelf feet of books. A broken model will produce spurious results.

PM Metrics has developed not just an advanced analytic tool in the Schedule Detective, but more importantly, processes for utilizing the vast amounts of information generated by the tool. Counts and colors are only part of the analysis process, what are essential is knowledge and the appropriate processes. PM Metrics and our associates have been in your shoes and are positioned to give you the help that you need, from tools to contracting out your PM functions, and everywhere in between.

John Krahula
President – PM Metrics