An Improved Earned Value Analysis Tool for Mitigating Progress Risks in Long Duration Projects

As a risk control tool, earned value analysis is crucial for identifying risky trends in the budget or schedule of a project. This tool relies on earned value management, a method for calculating cost and schedule variances. However, this method does not take into account the time value of money. This in itself is a threat that could lead to misleading data and eventually wrong decisions. This paper explores the risk management process, the earned value management method, and proposes a methodology that compliments the earned value management method with net present value calculations. This will allow project managers to take sound decisions based on more accurate information

The Crusades through Arab eyes

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Identidades asesinas.

«¿Medio francés y medio libanés entonces?», se pregunta Amin Maalouf en el preámbulo a «Identidades asesinas». Y responde: «¡De ningún modo! La identidad no está hecha de compartimentos, no se divide en mitades, ni en tercios o en zonas estancas». Lo que hace que Amin Maalouf sea uno, y no otro, lo que define su identidad, es ese estar en las lindes de dos países, de dos o tres idiomas, de varias tradiciones culturales. «¿Sería acaso más sincero si amputara de mí una parte de lo que soy?», se pregunta en este artículo

Leo the African

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Leo Africanus

This 1986 novel, originally published in French as Léon, l’Africain, is the imagined autobiography of real-life geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wassan (ca. 1494–ca. 1554), whose far-reaching travels in the sixteenth century were a precursor to the cultural interconnections we associate with modern globalization. After fleeing with his family from Granada to Fez, Morocco, to escape the Inquisition, Hasan made many commercial and diplomatic journeys. These took him throughout the Islamic Mediterranean, from North Africa to Arabia, and across the Sahara. Captured by a Sicilian pirate, he was taken as a gift to Pope Leo X in Rome. There he acquired the Latin name by which he is best known in the West. The writings of Leo Africanus served for some 400 years as one of Europe’s principal sources of information about Africa and Islam.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/muslim-journeys-books/1013/thumbnail.jp

Le mot du président général des 4e Rencontres

Juste un mot pour vous dire ma joie de participer en votre compagnie à l’évocation du souvenir de Joachim Du Bellay. Lorsque j’ai reçu votre aimable invitation, postée à Liré, j’ai naturellement été tenté de retrouver ce poème inoubliable, le 31e des Regrets dont tant de mots restent gravés dans ma mémoire depuis un demi-siècle. Non seulement la douceur angevine, l’ardoise fine, le loir gaulois ainsi que le petit Liré, non seulement le beau voyage d’Ulysse, la toison, l’usage et la raison, ma..

Identité et appartenances. Entretien

Maalouf Amin. Identité et appartenances. Entretien. In: Mots, n°50, mars 1997. Israël - Palestine. Mots d'accord et de désaccord, sous la direction de Lamria Chetouani, Roselyne Koren, Louise Lévy et Maurice Tournier. pp. 121-133