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Although it is sophisticated, EV can be scaled to be appropriate for any size of project. The key is in the project planning.

There are three primary advantages to using EV:
1. Accuracy in reporting
2. Ability to deal with the uneven rate of project expenditures and work
3. The early warning it provides project managers, allowing them to take the necessary corrective action should the project be spending more money than it is physically accomplishing.

Other less professional methods for measuring budget and schedules generally only monitor the percent of the time through the schedule and make the often mistaken assumption that this is also the percent that the project should be through the budget. But cost and project progress generally are not evenly expended through a project. The reason EV stands above the alternatives is that it accurately deals with this reality. EV warning signals become available to management as early as 15 to 20 percent into a new project, in ample time to take corrective measures.

How to Implement EV

In order to employ earned value, we must have a baseline plan (including a detailed, workload leveled, progress schedule) in place that will allow us to continuously measure seven points of data. The textbooks, including the referenced ones at the end of

provides project managers, allowing them to take the necessary corrective action should the project be spending more money than it is physically accomplishing.

Other less professional methods for measuring budget and schedules generally only monitor the percent of the time through the schedule and make the often mistaken assumption that this is also the percent that the project should be through the budget. But cost and project progress generally are not evenly expended through a project. The reason EV stands above the alternatives is that it accurately deals with this reality. EV warning signals become available to management as early as 15 to 20 percent into a new project, in ample time to take corrective measures.

How to Implement EV

In order to employ earned value, we must have a baseline plan (including a detailed, workload leveled, progress schedule) in place that will allow us to continuously measure seven points of data. The textbooks, including the referenced ones at the end of

at this is also the percent that the project should be through the budget. But cost and project progress generally are not evenly expended through a project. The reason EV stands above the alternatives is that it accurately deals with this reality. EV warning signals become available to management as early as 15 to 20 percent into a new project, in ample time to take corrective measures.

How to Implement EV

In order to employ earned value, we must have a baseline plan (including a detailed, workload leveled, progress schedule) in place that will allow us to continuously measure seven points of data. The textbooks, including the referenced ones at the end of

ject, in ample time to take corrective measures.

How to Implement EV

In order to employ earned value, we must have a baseline plan (including a detailed, workload leveled, progress schedule) in place that will allow us to continuously measure seven points of data. The textbooks, including the referenced ones at the end of this paper, say that this is easy. However in my reality it often is not easy because scheduling to this level of detail at the beginning of the project is challenging and dynamic.

Earned value requires the kind of data most projects have, but we may not look at the data in quite the same way. Earned value has a focus on its percent-complete position…against its (100 percent) defined scope.

In order to employ earned value we must first know at all times what the “planned value” is as at any point in time. So EV is built on a very structured project plan. It requires a detailed WBS, time and cost estimates for all of the work packages, a workload leveled master schedule, and a meticulous change management methodology (with this last part being the hardest for my projects).

To determine the planned value, we need to calculate two important base factors, 1) how much physical or intellectual work we have scheduled to be completed as of the point of measurement, and 2) what was the budgeted value of the work scheduled.

To measure earned value we need two new points of data: 3) how much of our scheduled work have we actually accomplished? And 4) what is the budgeted value of the work actually performed?

The next item is for the earned value work we have accomplished, what 5) costs have we actually spent and/or incurred.