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- Use Earned Value Management (EVM) to determine project status
- Readers DigestExcellent job of condensing a book into a single page. Was looking for more content and detail - not a single page summarization.Good explanation... Alan should go buy a bookThanks for the good summary. Unlike Alan, I did not expect you to write volumes on the subject, since...
- Tags: Project management, alanbdowns@..., earned value, planned value, Earned Value Management
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Use Earned Value Management (EVM) to determine project status
- The truth is that you can never know with any degree of precision how far along you are in a project. But with EVM, you can get a close estimate. Let's say your sponsor asks you the typical question about how far along you are on your project....
- Tags: Earned Value Management, Actual Cost, Planned Value, Earned Value, Schedule Variance, Schedule Performance Index, Cost Performance Index, Tom Mochal, budgeted cost, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Work, Truth, Productivity
- Technical articles 2007-03-27
Additional Resources
- Project Dynamics With Applications to Change Management and Earned Value Tracking
- This paper presents a novel project management model that incorporates several features yet to be actively addressed in the literature and focuses on earned value management. The model utilizes the basic structures employed in building project dynamics models. The effects of time-varying project team size, of varying productivity, of training...
- Tags: Texas Tech University, Model, Change Management, Leadership, Microsoft Project, Tools & Techniques, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2005-05-24
- Project Return Through Earned Value Management Enhancing: E-Government Is Changing the Way the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Works
- OPM handled five of the original e-Government projects that were initiated by the Office of Management and Budget OMB. The e-Government projects are led by a small e-Government team of project managers. To meet the challenge of keeping so many projects on track, the OMB mandates the use of a...
- Tags: Personnel Management, Microsoft Office, Primavera Systems Inc., E-government, Government
- Case studies
- Project Portfolio Earned Value Management Using Treemaps
- Project portfolio management deals with organizing and managing a set of projects in an organization. Each organization has its own way of managing the portfolio that meets its business goals. One of the main challenges is to track project performance across the entire portfolio in a timely and effective manner....
- Tags: Performance, Portfolio, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Earned Value Management: Monitoring Capital Investment Performance
- Federal agencies are under increased pressure to use Earned Value Management EVM when planning and controlling capital investments and purchasing related products and services. At first glance, this insistence on EVM may seem a difficult burden. Yet it also presents an enormous opportunity, because EVM is a proven methodology for...
- Tags: Performance, Investment, Monitoring, Capital Investment, Primavera Systems Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-08-12
- When Serious Project Management Is a Critical Business Requirement...
- When "serious" project management is a critical business requirement, project managers need to integrate cost, schedule and technical scope of work across the project, and apply earned value management EVM. When "serious" project management is a critical business requirement, managers need to integrate cost, schedule and technical scope of work...
- Tags: Business Requirement, California Institute Of Technology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-05-13
- Federal Agency Uses Earned Value Management Solution to Boost Efficiency, Cut Costs
- Project Solutions Group PSG is a Microsoft Certified Partner that helps organizations better manage their projects. PSG recently created an Enterprise Project Management EPM reporting solution for a federal agency that risked losing project funding if it failed to meet stringent new reporting requirements mandated by the Office of Management...
- Tags: Agency, Microsoft Corp., Project Solutions Group, Financial Management, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2006-02-01
- Planned baseline curve of earned value analysis to frequent project changes
- Frequent changes to project schedule to accomodate progress or lag from activity completions affect your planned s-curve to your earned value analysis. Does this mean everytime the project team agrees to changes in schedule which will affect resources, the planned s-curve also changes?Does this mean that earned value calculations done...
- Tags: Gina Laviste, S-curve, analysis
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Use earned value to determine project progress
- As a project manager, have you ever been asked how far along you were in a project? Of course you have. The question itself is vague, and so your equally vague answer of “we’re pretty close to schedule” sounds like an appropriate response. You might even have given the equally...
- Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, Earned Value
- Technical articles 2003-01-15
- Microsoft Office System Webcast: Satisfying Federal Earned Value Management (EVM) Reporting Requirements With Microsoft and Safran (Level 100)
- Federal agencies are under pressure to demonstrate that they effectively manage taxpayer dollars. The United States Office of Management and Budget OMB requires that agencies standardize their Earned Value Management EVM implementation for all major federal government acquisitions, including Information Technology IT services. Collecting EVM data is difficult and time...
- Tags: Webcast, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2006-01-31
- Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood demo (zip)
- Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood is the next chapter of the true story of the 101st Airborne. As Sgt. Joe "Red" Hartsock, you must travel beyond Hill 30 and lead your squad of paratroopers through some of the most intense missions of WWII as you fight for the liberation...
- Tags: Mission, UbiSoft Entertainment, Skirmish Mode, LANs, Games, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-09-21
- Intellisys Project Desktop (tgz)
- Intellisys Project Desktop is a visual tool to help plan and track business or home projects. It helps you organize the tasks in a complex project, assign budgets, estimate completion times and costs, create dependencies among tasks, and automatically schedule the tasks in a logical way. Print or save HTML/PDF...
- Tags: Task, Desktop, Project, Intellisys Project Desktop, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-03-02
- Project Management - Trained People, Proven Processes, and Enabling Technology
- The key to project management was the development of a whole new toolkit for project managers. New tools, such as Program Evaluation and Review Technique PERT and Critical Path Method CPM, earned value analysis, work breakdown structure, and cost benefit analysis were quickly worked into new project management processes to...
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-08-25
- Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood v1.02 patch (exe)
- This v1.02 patch for Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood addresses a number of issues with multiplayer, controls, audio, and more.
- Tags: UbiSoft Entertainment, Patches, Security
- Software downloads 2005-11-17
- Kiwi Manager (zip)
- Kiwi Manager is an online project management software that allows you to collaborate with your clients and team members effortlessly over the Internet. Our application features real project management tools that are seamlessly integrated with collaboration tools such as file repositories, forums, and file approval modules. Project management features include...
- Tags: Sphere Concepts, Kiwi Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-21
- Project Planning and Management (zip)
- The Project Planning and Management template is designed as a generic solution to plan and manage any project. Building the budget as tasks are identified facilitates the processes of business case proposal, valuation and funding. Progress can be monitored from automatic creation and updating from remote participant workbooks. Project performance...
- Tags: Business Case, Tool, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2003-07-29
- OpenProj (zip)
- OpenProj is a free, open-source project management solution. OpenProj is ideal for desktop project management and supports opening Microsoft or Primavera files. OpenProj shares its scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and has Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams PERT Charts, WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing, and more. Version beta 2.1 fixes...
- Tags: Projity, OpenProj, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Software downloads 2007-08-16
- Wage discrepancies between women and men may surprise you
- By that title, I'm not talking about the fact that, historically and on average, women make lower salaries than men performing the same job do. I'm talking about what appears to be a new trend, if you can believe a recent analysis completed by the Department of Sociology at Queens...
- Tags: Job, Women, Information Technology, Salary, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Real Project 2007 (zip)
- Real Project 2007 is to let Project Manager manage their project easier and to increase the successful rate of project completion. More than Gantt Chart - It provides an ease of use interface for project manager to create Workbreakdown Structure WBS, Gantt Chart, Team Chart and Communication Plan. In addition,...
- Tags: Project Manager, Work Breakdown Structure, Real Project 2007, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
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