Kevin Archbold

About Kevin Archbold

Kevin Archbold, PMP, PMI-SP, has over 30 years of project management experience with large and small organizations in a variety of industries, including automotive, nuclear, telecommunications, trucking, IT, recruiting, mining, construction, and government. Kevin has presented at local and national levels within the Project Management Institute (PMI), is the winner of a local chapter PMI Project of the Year Award, and is the current president of a PMI Chapter.

Sample PMP Question: November 2015

If your expected value is 110 and the standard deviation is 12, which of the following is true? A. There is approximately a 99% chance of […]

Suggestions for More Productive Project Status Meetings – Part 3

Track and record issues. Produce short, meaningful, useful meeting notes. Record decisions, issues, and action items where people can see them. Structure the meeting around […]

How to Collect Progress for Your Projects

Each reporting cycle, you should be collecting updated information about how your project is progressing (“Actuals”). But how should you collect this information? There are […]

Suggestions for More Productive Project Status Meetings – Part 2

If this is only time the team meets, schedule two meetings back-to-back, instead of one long meeting. Use the first meeting for status, and the […]

Sample PMP Question: August 2015

Which of the following is not a common format for reporting performance? a. Bar Charts b. Resource Activity Matrix c. S-Curves d. Tabular Reports B. […]

Suggestions for More Productive Project Status Meetings – Part 1

Schedule the meeting on an appropriate, regular, and well publicized basis. Create an agenda. Understand the meeting’s desired outcomes. and plan the meeting processes. Standardize […]

Sample PMP Question: July 2015

A housing construction project requires that governmental environmental hearings be held prior to site preparation. From a project management prospective, this is an example of? […]

Schedule Performance Index

What is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)? The Schedule Performance index (or SPI) is the ratio of the budget for the work performed to the […]

Sample PMP Question: May 2015

You are responsible for a construction project currently under execution. You’re closely evaluating the work by constantly measuring the project performance, and recommending changes, repairs, […]

Estimating Activity Durations

What is an estimate of activity duration? An activity duration estimate is an evaluation of how long will be needed to actually perform an activity. […]