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Article Scope Management, Scheduling, Cost Management, Earned Value Management 1 October 2016

Project Management Journal

Practical Application and Empirical Evaluation of Reference Class Forecasting for Project Management

By Batselier, Jordy | Vanhoucke, Mario Traditionally, project managers produce cost and time forecasts by predicting the future course of specific events. In contrast, reference class forecasting (RCF) bypasses human judgment by basing…

Article Scheduling, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management February 2013

Project Management Journal

A Bayesian approach to improve estimate at completion in earned value management

By Caron, Franco | Ruggeri, Fabrizio | Merli, Alessandro Forecasting represents a core project management process. Estimates at completion in terms of cost and schedule provide essential data and advice to the project team to lead and control the project…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Benefits Realization, Cost Management, Earned Value Management 13 October 2009

Practical calculation of delays and cost overruns

By Kanabar, Vijay | Leybourne, Stephen A. | Warburton, Roger David Hand In using earned value management (EVM), project managers can gauge the budget and schedule variances between planned work and completed work. This paper examines the new EVM calculations discussed…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Skill Development, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 8 November 2006

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

By Prasad, Vijay | Rajkumar, P. | Rastogi, Subhash C. Information technology (IT) projects are notorious for failing to meet client project cost and schedule targets. To transform the way IT professionals implement projects, numerous project management…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 19 July 2006

Phase earned value analysis

By Bower, Douglas C. In the search to find methods to improve project performance, an increasing number of organizations--mostly those in the aerospace and defense industries--have adopted earned value management (EVM).…

Conference Paper Scheduling, PMO, Cost Management, Skill Development, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 2006

Managing firmed fixed price projects using EVM

By Prasad, Vijay | Rajkumar, P. | Rastogi, Subhash C. Firm Fixed Price (FFP) projects often fail when the owner and the service provider have conflicting motives. Resolving these conflicts is the project manager's responsibility. This paper discusses…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Skill Development, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management 21 April 2004

Using earned value management indexes as a team development factor and a compensation tool

By Vargas, Ricardo Viana Building a project-appropriate project team is a project in itself, one that involves planning, acquisition, and execution, including team development. This paper examines an index for evaluating…

Article Scheduling, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management July 2001

PM Network

Earned value for the masses

By Fleming, Quentin W. | Koppelman, Joel M. More than one hundred years ago, industrial engineers first used earned value (EV) as a technique for determining the true cost of production work for large and complex projects. Through their…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Scope Management, Earned Value Management 7 September 2000

Seminars & Symposium

Where in the schedule is your budget?

By Berkey, Walt | Hudson, Joann Program managers have long struggled to integrate cost functions into scheduling tools. And too often they have found that the cost of implementing a program did not match the original program…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Earned Value Management 24 June 2000

Deriving the second and third dimensions of the BCWS

By Sen, Suhrita Earned Value Management, as currently defined in the profession, provides integration of cost and time. However, since projects rarely keep variances to zero and Schedule & Cost Performance Indices…