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Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 29 October 2013

EVM for the rest of us

By Bergerud, Christen Earned value management (EVM) has gained a reputation for being overly complex and burdensome to implement. Based on these misconceptions, many organizations have missed out on the opportunity to…

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Construction, Telecommunications 24 April 2013

Differences of earned value management practices in construction

By Boydak, Attila Earned value management (EVM) is a powerful project management method that is implemented in engineering and construction projects. There are various recommended methods and frameworks for EVM…

Conference Paper Strategy, Quality Management, Benefits Realization, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 23 October 2012

Earned value management

By Heinlein, J. W. | Craig, Christopher | Perotti, John | Pearson, Megan | Wooten, Teressa | Balderson, Lucas Growing pressure on federal budgets creates the strategic imperative to increase the transparency of the performance of agencies' mission-critical investments, as well as heighten their realized…

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 12 October 2010

Effective earned value management

By Shepherd, Bill By measuring a project's earned value, project managers can gain valuable insight into a project team's performance. This paper examines how project professionals can use an earned value management…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Requirements Management, Agile, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, SCRUM 12 October 2010

Beyond backlogs and burndowns--complementing "agile" methods with EVM for improved project performance

By Nikravan, Bijan | Forman, James B. The agile approach can help project teams quickly adapt to changing stakeholder requirements and volatile project conditions. Earned value management (EVM) provides project managers with an…

Conference Paper Stakeholder Engagement, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 8 November 2006

Improving project stakeholders' commitment using earned value management

By Novaes Olivieri, Alexandre Project managers can easily alienate project stakeholders, particularly when themanagers fail to consistently provide their project's stakeholders with accurate quantitative reports showing a…

Case Study Scheduling, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 8 November 2006

PMI Global Congress—Latin America

Managing firmed fixed price projects using EVM: a case-study

By Prasad, Vijay | Rajkumar, P. | Rastogi, Subhash C. This paper examines a case study of how one IT service provider used EVM to implement a FFP project

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense October 2006

Real experience

By Cabezas Castillo, Luis It is the unexpected indirect benefits that organizations obtain from practicing project management that often help project managers persuade executives to invest in projects. This paper discusses…

Case Study Scheduling, PMO, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 2006

PMI Global Congress—Asia Pacific

Managing firmed fixed price projects using EVM

By Prasad, Vijay | Rajkumar, P. | Rastogi, Subhash C. This paper discusses how project managers can use EVM to control cost and schedule variances that occur on FFP projects.

Conference Paper Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 2006

Earned value--a hands-on simulation

By Kinser, John The primary purpose of using an earned value management system (EVMS) is to integrate a project's scope, schedule, and cost components into a single baseline that enables project managers to more…