Quentin W. Fleming

Project Management Consultancy

Quentin W. Fleming
Fleming Management Consultancy

• Management Consultancy Services
• Project Management Textbooks
• About the Principal

Management Consultancy Services

     In 1991 Quentin Fleming began his management consultancy practice to help companies implement their new projects, and / or to assess the performance of their ongoing projects. He offers his services in the old fashioned way...working with company management as an outside catalyst, to stimulate permanent improvements within the organization.

     A few of his published articles on project management may be viewed on-line at:

"The Two Most Useful Earned Value Metrics:

The CPI and the TCPI"

http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2008/12/0812FlemingKoppelman.html 

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"Start With 'Simple' Earned Value

On All Your Projects"

http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2006/06/0606FlemingKoppelman.html

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"Performance Based Payments (FAR 32.10):

if it walks, talks, and quacks like earned value, it must be earned value"

http://www.pmi-cpm.org/members/library/FlemingAndKopplman.pdf 

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"Earned Value Project Management...an introduction"

http://stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/frames.asp?uri=1999/07/fleming.asp 

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"Earned Value Management: Mitigating Risks with Construction Projects"

http://www.dau.mil/pubs/pm/pmpdf02/fle-ma2.pdf 

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"Earned Value Management-A Powerful Tool for Software Projects"

http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/frames.asp?uri=1998/07/value.asp 

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"What's Your Project's Real Price Tag."

(This article appeared in the September, 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Anyone interested can read it, for a small charge, on the HBR online website.)

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"Sarbanes-Oxley: Does Compliance Require Earned Value Management  on Projects?"

http://www.QuentinF.com/CM_Apr04_p26.pdf 

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For a complete bibliography and a library of articles and books on EVM, prepared by Dr. David S. Christensen, and the Project Management Institute's College of Performance Management, see their websites at:

http://www.suu.edu/faculty/christensend/ev-bib.html 

http://www.PMI-CPM.org

Project Management Textbooks

     Quentin Fleming is the author of eight published books which have sold over 100,000 copies world wide. His management textbooks are used by universities and consultants to reinforce the learning process. His two latest titles are currently available from the Project Management Institute's (PMI) on-line bookstore at http://www.PMI.org. Drill down in the  Marketplace tab.  Earlier book titles can often be obtained from the on-line used book dealers.

Project Procurement Management-contracting, subcontracting, teaming

             ISBN # 0-9743912-0-4, and # 780974391205

by Quentin W. Fleming

"It may be difficult to identify the single best book on project procurement management, but this one should be a prime candidate. Written by a member of the team that produced the procurement management chapter of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK (R) Guide) 2000 Edition, it closely parallels PMI standards."  Project Management Institute: PMNetwork, January 2007.

This is a textbook about that portion of project management which is procured and performed by another organization. It focuses on the procurement of scope from an organization outside of the project. Often, the success or failure of a project is dependent on how well the project can plan, define, solicit, authorize and manage this external contractual relationship. 

Note: The book was updated in December 2008 and is alligned with the Fourth Edition of the PMBOK (R) Guide released by PMI in 2008. 

This book is available ($39.95) from the Project Management Institute's (PMI) on-line bookstore at http://www.PMI.org. Locate the book by going to the PMI Search Tab and type in: [Quentin Fleming].

Residents of Canada may obtain this book directly from the bookstore at Ryerson University in Toronto at 416-979-5116 or on-line at http://www.Bookstore.Ryerson.ca 

Hardcover 288 pages.

This book has been translated into both "simplified" and "traditional" Chinese language. Interested parties should contact Mr. Pan Kao at PanKao2@yahoo.com. 

This book is also available in the Russian language. Interested parties should contact Mr. Vladimir Liberzon at V_Liberzon@yahoo.com 

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Earned Value Project Management (Third Edition)

             ISBN # 1-93069989-1

by Quentin W. Fleming and Joel M. Koppelman

A description of earned value management in its most basic form, intended for application to all projects, of any size, and from any industry. It describes a simple but scalable approach for earned value management covering the smallest to large complex mega-projects. Start with simple EVM then move on to full ANSI/EIA 748 compliance as needed to satisfy your customers.

The Second Edition was translated into the Japanese language by the Tokyo Chapter of PMI in 2004.

The book describes concepts outlined in the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Year 2008 Fourth Edition of "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide)."

A Third Edition of this book was published by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2005. Softcover 232 pages. It is available ($49.95) at: http://www.PMI.org. 

Locate the book by going to the the PMI Search Tab and type in: [Quentin Fleming].

The book has been described by PMI: 

"This popular text may well be the best-written, most easily understood project management book on the market today."  PMNetwork, April 2008.

by Quentin W. Fleming

A comprehensive treatise on the more formal "earned value" approach, as implemented by the United States Department of Defense with their C/SCSC. Twenty-three chapters and seven appendices trace the subject from its origin through future directions for earned value management.
Published originally in 1988 and updated in 1992. Hardbound, 564 pages.

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by Quentin W. Fleming, John Bronn and Gary C. Humphreys

A comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of scheduling from the Gantt Chart to the critical path method (CPM) to Line of Balance. Addresses both project and production scheduling methods. A basic primer on scheduling. Written specifically for non-scheduling people.
Published in 1987. Hardbound 272 pages.

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by Quentin W. Fleming and Quentin J. Fleming

Covers the subject of progress payments based on costs incurred, as required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation, FAR sub-part 32.5. The book recommends maintaining a linkage between all progress payments and the supplier's physical performance in order to minimize risks.
Published in 1991. Hardbound 257 pages.

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by Quentin W. Fleming and Quentin J. Fleming

Provides prime contractors with the basic information they need to plan and to organize for the issuance of subcontracts to other companies. Specific chapters cover: risk management, contract types, make or buy analysis, subcontract planning, etc. A "Project Procurement Management" primer.
Published in 1993. Hardbound 262 pages.

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Earlier titles may be obtained from on-line used book dealers:

• Abe Books New & Used: http://www.Abebooks.com 
• Bookfinder at:  http://www.BookFinder.com 
• UsedBookSearch at:  http://www.UsedBookSearch.co.UK/ 

About the Principal
Quentin W. Fleming

     Author, instructor and consultant to management, with over three decades of project management experience within private industry. He has particular expertise in the design of and/or the assessment of project management control systems.

     He is the author of eight published textbooks that have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. His books have covered the varied subjects of earned value project management, planning and scheduling, and the management of procured project scope, sometimes called contracting or subcontracting.

     He has been an instructor with the University of California at Irvine (UCI) extension since 1995, and also serves on the UCI Project Management Advisory Board. He developed two new courses for UCI, both courses are required components of their project management certificate program. His two courses have been offered worldwide by UCI over three hundred times. 

     He served as the President of the Orange County Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) in 1998. That same year he also served as the Project Manager for PMI 1998 technical program, their International Conference which was held in Long Beach, California. Over 250 professional papers were presented at that conference.

     In 2008 he served on the PMI "core team" which updated the PMBOK (R) Guide for their Fourth Edition released in December 2008. He was the chapter lead for two of the nine PMBOK(R) Guide knowledge area chapters: Chapter 7 on Project Cost Management, and Chapter 12 Project Procurement Management.

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     In 1971, Quentin was given a United States Government appointment with the American Peace Corps. He and his family were moved to Washington, DC, then sent to Tehran, Iran, where he served as the seventh and the last American Peace Corps Director for Iran. Concurrently, he also directed the Peace Corps mission in the small island nation of Bahrain, 20 miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia, in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. In 1976 he returned to private industry.

Quentin W. Fleming
Fleming Management Consultancy

  Note: if you had intended to reach the other Quentin Fleming who consults in the areas of family businesses, organizational development, or strategic planning, and who is also a professor in strategic management at the University of Southern California (USC), may I suggest that you contact my son at his personal website: