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Project Management Orientation

Earned Value Analysis  

Project managers are constantly looking for methods or tools that will provide specific, timely, and accurate project information to support their decisions.   Earned value is one of the methods for gathering such information and monitoring a project's performance.  It serves as an indicator of project status, and helps determine the project's progress.  The term itself refers to a specific measurement, the budgeted cost of work performed.

Earned value analysis is the process of comparing, in terms of earned value, the project's actual performance against its planned performance.  It can be calculated in hours or in dollars, and it can be calculated cumulatively or used to measure subprojects individually.

 

1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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