Earned Value Management Using Microsoft Office Project: A Guide for Managing Any Size Project EffectivelyJ. Ross Publishing, 15 wrz 2008 - 248 Schedule and cost management are the most essential parts of project lifecycle management and many projects fail as a result of not managing these critical components effectively. The most commonly used tool for project schedule management is Microsoft Office Project, which is designed to assist project managers in developing schedules, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. The most common technique used for cost management is earned value management (EVM), a project management technique used for measuring project progress in an objective manner that combines measurements of project scope, schedule and cost performance within a single integrated methodology. EVM is becoming the standard across the world for this purpose in both the private and public sector and many organizations are now adopting this technique to manage their projects. In the public sector, EVM is mandated for all government projects in the United States and many other countries are following suit. Earned Value Management Using Microsoft® Office Project is the first reference to effectively combine the most widely used scheduling tool with the most widely accepted cost management technique. It is a practical guide to end-to-end scheduling and cost management using Microsoft Office Project that includes a CD-ROM of a limited version of a unique EVM software tool that will help practitioners more effectively manage their projects, track and report the status and progress of projects, and take necessary action before their projects fail beyond repair. This text is an excellent complement to whatever Microsoft Office Project guide that you may be using and a significant addition to the literature on how to use EVM. |
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Schedule Management | 9 |
What Is EVM | 19 |
Why EVM? | 59 |
Creating a Schedule | 75 |
Setting Up the EVM Report Template | 109 |
Tracking Progress in the Schedule | 117 |
Monitoring the Schedule | 129 |
Additional Schedule Management Techniques | 139 |
EVM for Production Support | 147 |
Schedule ManagementAn EndtoEnd Example | 155 |
EVM Template Quick Guide | 187 |
Glossary | 193 |
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9 Task 9 actual cost ahead of schedule assigned back on track baseline cost BCWP breakdown structure budget at completion budgeted cost button choose cost performance indicator cost variance Day 10 Day Day Day Day dialog box dropdown earned value Earned Value Management efficiency ensure enter estimate at completion EVM report template EVM technique EVM template example finish-to-start forecast formula Gantt Chart graph lowest-level tasks Microsoft monitoring Office Project option overallocations parameters performance measures planned value proj project level project manager project schedule project stakeholders project team rebaselined recurring tasks reporting period resource leveling Resource Rate S-curve schedule and cost schedule performance indicator schedule variance scope creep screen service level agreements setup sheet shown in Figure summary tasks Table task level TCPI tickets to-complete schedule performance tool TSPI update utilized weeks Wgtd