Earned Value Made Simple puts the power in your hands to make sure your projects never fall behind schedule or go over budget again.
This highly practical book takes you on a step-by-step journey to help you learn the earned value method and use it on your projects. It explains how to set up the project baseline and how earned value tracks your project against the baseline. Each earned value formula is demonstrated and explained.
A worked example is carried throughout the book and analysis is provided for the results. Finally, project reporting requirements to senior management is described. There is no other publication which provides this much detail on Earned Value.
- Project setup
- Budgets, schedules and baselines
- Inputs - BAC, PV, EV, and AC
- Current status - SV, SPI, CV, and CPI
- Forecasting - EAC, ETC, VAC, and TCPI
- Reporting the results
- Agile and Earned Value
- Project management software
If you're a PMP student, this book will ensure you need nothing else to ace one of the exam's biggest content topics.
If you're a practicing project manager, you will gain invaluable resources to use on your projects that will pay off on the first day.
* BONUS *
All forms are provided online so that you can get started in minutes. Just enter your project information into the Excel forms and all of the metrics are calculated for you, and all of the project reports are completed.