Project Management

Drag Cost: Deliver More Value Faster!

Earned Value Management Strategy

November 18, 2025 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5)

Platform: Zoom
Capacity: 5000
Duration: 60 min
Presenter: Stephen Devaux

Support: Earning PDUs | Tips For Attendees

Overview

Critical Path Drag identifies and quantifies potential project delay with the activities causing it. Similarly, Drag Cost identifies and quantifies the reduction in project value due to such a delay with each activity’s Critical Path Drag. This provides the justification for added resources (one of the hardest tasks for a project manager!). It can also preempt the common occurrence of optional work being performed despite the fact that its True Cost of Work (TCW) is greater than the value it adds (TCW = resource costs + Drag Cost).

Learning Objectives

In this webinar series, we’ve shown how to use Critical Path Drag to deliver faster and the Value Breakdown Structure (VBS) to ensure we’re delivering maximum value! Now we combine the two to explore the value/cost of acceleration/delay: how to use it to justify resources and speed up value delivery.

This webinar qualifies for the following PDUs:

	Ways of Working	Power Skills	Business Acumen	Total
PMP/PgMP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
CAPM	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-ACP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-SP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-RMP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PfMP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-PBA	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
DASM	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
DASSM	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
DAC	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
DAVSC	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-CP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-PMOCP	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00
PMI-CPMAI	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00