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Earned Value Management
Applying the principles of Earned Value Management to software projects, for a more accurate understanding of where the project is really at. The emphasis is on “lite” Earned Value, for ease-of-use.
With Earned Value, you are much less likely to “kid yourself” about the true state of the project (and other people are less likely present unrealistic status to you).
Recent Earned Value Posts of Interest
Glen Alleman posted on the difficulty (or otherwise) of the maths in EVM, and several of us commented. He followed that with an example in which the maths is very simple, which I quite liked as an introduction to Earned Value.
Marcin Niebudek wrote an article, in which… Read more
Speaking on Earned Value at NZ Computer Society Conference
I’ll be speaking at the New Zealand Computer Society’s 50th Anniversary Conference, on the topic of Earned Value Management.
I’m looking forward to being part of an interesting conference, and hopefully helping to lift the profile of EVM in New Zealand.
( The abstract’s reference… Read more
Earned Value in a Nutshell
I’ve been looking for a way to describe the “essence” of Earned Value Management (EVM). How can I describe the core of what EVM is about – without resorting to an impenetrable jungle of acronyms?
This is particularly important when describing it to people outside EVM’s traditional strongholds of defense… Read more
Does our intuition fail us?
Why do so many projects seem to be OK, but, when you get near the end, they turn out not to be OK after all? Everyone thought you were going to make the target date, but at the last minute… well, no you couldn’t.
I’d like to suggest an answer. … Read more
Agile Charts Part II – The EVM Perspective
I was recently invited to write an article on agile-style EVM charts for Software Tech News, a publication of the US Department of Defense. The audience was the traditional EVM community within the DoD, so I wrote the article from a traditional EVM perspective. By way of background,… Read more
Charting Change
Time and Budget Charts show project status clearly. But what happens when the scope changes? Does the chart still work? If so, how do you update it to reflect the new scope?
The charts can accommodate change in three ways, as follows:
Agile Charts
I’m sick of Gantt charts. They’re hard to maintain and they don’t tell me what I want to know. I want the big picture:
- Are we on time?
- Are we on budget?
Gantt charts overshadow the big picture with details. Here’s a clearer, simpler chart: