The Mathematics Behind Project Management

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES

The Mathematics Behind Project Management
“Earned Value Management”

Burak ULUOCAK

July 2009, İstanbul

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Burak Uluocak, PMP, CSM


TABLE OF CONTENTS

page
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 3
LIST OF FIGURES 4
ABSTRACT 5
1. INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT 6
1.1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE 6
1.2. DEFINITION OF PROJECT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT 6

2. TIME MANAGEMENT 9
2.1. NETWORK DIAGRAMS 9
2.2. ACTIVITY DURATION ESTIMATION 10
2.3. CRITICAL PATH METHOD 10
2.4. PERT (PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE) 11
2.5. TECHNIQUES TO COMPRESS PROJECT DURATION 14

3. COST MANAGEMENT 15
3.1. BASIC CONCEPTS 15
3.2. COST ESTIMATION AND BUDGETING 15

4. EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT 17
4.1. HISTORY 17
4.2. DEFINITION AND TERMINOLOGY 18
4.3. IMPROVEMENTS ON EARNED VALUE TECHNIQUE 22

CONCLUSION 24

REFERENCES 25

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

PMI Project Management Institute
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique
O Optimistic Time
P Pessimistic Time
M Most Likely Time
TE Expected Time
EVM Earned Value Management
ER Effort
RI Resource usage intensity
EV Earned Value
BCWP Earned Value
PV Planned Value
BCWS Planned Value
AC Actual Cost
ACWP Actual Cost
CV Cost Variance
SV Schedule Variance
CPI Cost Performance Index
SPI Schedule Performance Index
BAC Budget at Completion
EAC Estimate at Completion
ETC Estimate to Complete
VAC Variance at Completion
TCPI To-Complete Performance Index
Fs Schedule Factor
Fc Cost Factor

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 Project Constraints “Triple Constraint”
Figure 2 Project Management Process Groups
Figure 3 A project WBS example from a banking project
Figure 4 The project activities of a project
Figure 5 Cost Estimation and Budgeting Example
Figure 6 President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Scorecard
Figure 7 Overall program view of EVM data
Figure 8 Illustrative Graphic Performance Report

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ABSTRACT

Project Management is an important role in today’s flattener organizations. As companies
continue to reduce hierarchical levels and move toward more horizontal structures, more
people with project management skills are needed. Also, in order to launch the new
products on time and in budget, nearly all the important companies use project
management skills, to coordinate people from manufacturing to marketing and finance.

On the other hand, related to other management disciplines, modern project management
is pretty new. It first started to be used in the USA by government programs in 1950s, but
it has been used widely in all sectors beginning from 1990s and it still improves. Today,
it is seen that although human skills are important in order to establish the necessary
coordination between people and departments, technical skills are equally important to
measure the project performance objectively and to take necessary actions. This study
concentrates on an important mathematical project management technique “Earned Value
Management” in order to highlight these necessary technical skills.

In the first part we give necessary concepts about project management. In the following
parts we highlight methods for management of two important project constraints “time”
and “cost”. “Earned Value Management” technique is highlighted in the final part.

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1. INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1.1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Project Management Institute (PMI) is a not-for-profit professional association, whose
goal is to advance the practice, science, and profession of project management throughout
the world in order organizations to embrace value and utilize project management and
then attribute their success to it.

PMI was founded in 1969 by working project managers. Today the association has
420,000 members and credential holders. In order to ensure a basic project management
framework PMI has set 11 global standards and 2 million “A Guide to Project
Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)” has been issued. (www.pmi.org)

In this study, concept descriptions will be given based on PMI standards and guides in
order to maintain a global understanding.

1.2. DEFINITION OF PROJECT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project is:
- A temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end,
- Creates a unique product, service or result,
- Is progressively elaborated (distinguishing characteristics of each unique project will
be progressively detailed as the project is better understood). (Project Management
Institute Standards Committee, 2004)

Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to
bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.

The projects need to be performed and delivered – of course managed- under certain
constraints. Traditionally, these constraints have been listed as scope, time and cost. The
time constraint refers to the amount of time available to complete a project. The cost
constraint refers to the budgeted amount available for the project. The scope constraint
refers to what must be done to produce the project’s end result.

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These are also referred as the “Project Management Triangle”, where each side represents
a constraint. One side of the triangle cannot be changed without affecting the others. For
example, increased scope typically means increased time and increased cost; a tight time
constraint could mean increased costs and reduced scope …

Figure 1: Project Constraints “Triple Constraint”

The Project Management Institute has broadened these traditional three constraints to
modern 9 project management knowledge areas as:
1. Scope,
2. Time,
3. Cost,
4. Quality,
5. Human Resources,
6. Communications,
7. Risk,
8. Procurement,
9. Integration. (Project Management Institute Standards Committee, 2004)

For management of projects the process groups below should be followed:
1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling
5. Closing (Project Management Institute Standards Committee, 2004)

Figure 2: Project Management Process Groups Mapped to Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle

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In order to plan and manage a project, project work should be detailed to manageable
parts. The WBS creation process is necessary for subdividing the major project
deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.

In activity definition, WBS is broken down further (decomposing) in order to reach the
activity level; a level small enough to estimate, schedule, monitor and manage. These
activities are then sequenced; resource, schedule and cost estimates are made in order.
Parallel to these, project manager also makes, quality, human resources, communications,
risk management and if necessary contract planning.

This study covers the mathematical concepts used for management of the most important
constraints, “time” and “cost”.

Figure 3: A project WBS example from a banking project (MS Project view).

Figure 4: The project activities of the same project.

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2. TIME MANAGEMENT
2.1. NETWORK DIAGRAMS
In activity sequencing process necessary project activities are sequenced based on how
the work will be performed. The result is a network diagram (or project schedule network
diagram). There are 2 ways to draw network diagrams, “Precedence Diagramming
Method” and “Arrow Diagramming Method”.

2.1.1. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) or Activity-on-Node (AON):
In this method, nodes (or boxes) are used to represent activities, and arrows show activity
dependencies as follows:

This type of drawing can have 3 types of dependencies between activities:
Finish-to- start An activity must finish before the successor can start.
Start-to- start An activity must start before the successor can start.
Finish-to- finish An activity must finish before the successor can finish.(Mulcahy,
2005)

2.1.2. Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM) or Activity-on-Arrow (AOA):
In this method of drawing a network diagram, the arrows are used to represent activities.
The nodes (in this case circles) represent activity dependencies. Any activity (arrow)
coming into a node is a predecessor to any activity leading the node. This method:
- Uses only finish-to-start relationships between activities.
- May use dummy activities. Dummies are usually represented by a dotted line and are
inserted simply to show dependencies between activities. (Mulcahy, 2005)

Activity Activity
A B

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2.2. ACTIVITY DURATION ESTIMATION
Once activity definitions are made, the amount of time each activity is expected to take is
needed. How is the estimating done? These techniques are used:
• One-Time Estimate: When estimating using a one-time estimate, one estimate per
activity is received. One-time estimates should only be used for projects that do not
require a detailed, highly probable schedule.
• Analogous Estimating: Analogous estimating is a form of expert judgment. For
example: The last 5 projects similar to this one each took 5 months so this one should
also.
• Three-Point Estimates: It is important to understand that statistically there is a very
small probability of completing a project on any one date. Therefore, time estimates
for an activity or a project must be in a range. In this form of estimating the activity
provides an optimistic (O), pessimistic (P) and most likely (M) estimate for each
activity. The resulting estimates for an activity will be stated like 7 days plus or minus
2 days, which means that the activity will take anywhere from 5 to 9 days.
• Reserve Analysis: It is required project management to accommodate the time and
cost risk in a project through the use of reserves. There can be 2 kinds of reserves
added: Contingency Reserve and management reserve. Contingency reserve is for the
risks remaining after risk response planning. Management reserve is any extra amount
of funds to be set aside to cover unforeseen risks. (Mulcahy, 2005)

After duration estimates are made, it is time to make the whole project duration and
schedule estimation. In this study, 2 most widely-used methods are covered: “Critical
Path” and “PERT” methods.

2.3. CRITICAL PATH METHOD:
The critical path method includes determining the longest path in the network diagram
(the critical path) and the earliest and latest an activity can start and the earliest and latest
it can be completed. An example will be helpful to define this concept:

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Example: A project has the activities and durations below:
Activity Preceding Activity Estimate in Months
Start 0
D Start 4
A Start 6
F D, A 7
E D 8
G F, E 5
B F 5
H G 7
C H 8
End C, B 0

In order to determine the critical path, network diagram of the project is drawn:

We see that this project has 5 paths and the duration of the critical path is 33 months. As
a result the duration of the project is also 33 months. (Mulcahy, 2005)
Paths Duration
Start, D, E, G, H, C, End 32
Start, D, F, G, H, C, End 31
Start, D, F, B, End 16
Start, A, F, G, H, C, End 33
Start, A, F, B, End 18

2.4. PERT (PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE):
The Program (or Project) Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a method to
analyze the involved tasks in completing a given project, especially the time needed to
complete each task and identifying the minimum time needed to complete the total

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project. It was developed primarily to simplify the planning and scheduling of large and
complex projects. In order to find the duration and standard deviation for a project, PERT
estimates for each activity on the critical path should be added.

Terminology:
• Optimistic time (O): The minimum possible time required to accomplish a task,
assuming everything proceeds better than is normally expected.
• Pessimistic time (P): The maximum possible time required to accomplish a task,
assuming everything goes wrong.
• Most likely time (M): The best estimate of the time required to accomplish a task,
assuming everything proceeds as normal.
• Expected time (duration) (TE): The best estimate of the time required to accomplish a
task, assuming everything proceeds as normal.

Expected completion time (duration) (TE) = (P+4M+O) (1)
6

Variance of an activity (σ2) = P-O 2
(2)
6

Standard deviation of an activity = P-O (3)
6

• For every activity on the Critical Path, the Expected Completion Time (Duration) and
Variance is calculated.
• Next, Expected Completion Times of all activities are added to calculate the Expected
Completion Time for the whole project.
• Finally, the corresponding variance for each activity is added to calculate the variance
for the overall project. (Mulcahy, 2005)

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Example: An IT project consists of 4 activities as analysis, system design, coding and
functional testing. The estimates of activities are below. What is the duration of the
project?

Activity
Activity O M P Expected Standard Activity Range of the
Duration Deviation Variance Estimate

Analysis 14 27 47 28.167 5.50 30.25 22.667 – 33.667
or
28.167 +/- 5.50

Design 60 89 61.667 8.00 64.00 53.667 – 69.667
41 or
61.667 +/- 8.00

Coding 42.333 – 45.333
39 44 48 43.833 1.50 2.25 or
43.833 +/- 5.50

Functional 52 36.50 2.167 4.694 34.333 – 38.667
Tests 29 37 or
35.50 +/- 2.167

Calculations for the “analysis” activity:

Expected Completion Time (Duration) = _14 + 4 * 27 + 47_ = 28.167
6

Activity Standard Deviation = _47-14_ = 5.5
6

Activity Variance = (5.5) 2 = 30.25

Range of the Estimate for Analysis Activity = 28.167 +/- 5.50 = 22.667 to 33.667

The other activity durations are calculated with the same method and results are above.

Project Duration Calculations:

Expected Project Completion Time = 28.167 + 61.667 + 43.883 + 36.50 = 170.167

Project Variance = 30.25 + 64.00 + 2.25 + 4.694 = 101.194

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Project Standard Deviation = 101.94 ½ = 10.060

Range of the Project Duration Estimate = 170.167 +/- 10.060 => 160.107 to 180.227

2.5. TECHNIQUES TO COMPRESS PROJECT DURATION:

• Fast Tracking – Doing critical path activities in parallel that are originally planned in
series.
• Crashing – Adding or moving resources to critical path activities to decrease their
duration.
• Reducing SCOPE
• Cutting Quality

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3. COST MANAGEMENT
3.1. BASIC CONCEPTS
Project Cost Management includes the processes involved in planning, estimating,
budgeting and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved
budget. Cost Management has 3 processes:
• Cost Estimating: Developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to
complete project activities.
• Cost Budgeting: Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work
packages to establish a cost baseline.
• Cost Control: Influencing the factors that create cost variances and controlling
changes to the project budget.

A cost can be either variable or fixed:
• Variable Costs: Costs that change with the amount o production or the amount of
work. Examples include the cost of material, supplies and wages.
• Fixed Costs: Costs that do not change as production changes. Examples include set
up, rental, etc.

Also a cost can be either direct or indirect:
• Direct Costs: Costs those are directly attributable to the work on the project.
Examples are team travel, team wages, recognition and costs of material used on the
project.
• Indirect Costs: Overhead items or costs incurred for the benefit of more than one
project. Examples include taxes, fringe benefits, etc... (Mulcahy, 2005)

3.2. COST ESTIMATION AND BUDGETING
A budget is merely a compilation of the individual cost estimates. Activity costs are
rolled up to work package costs. Work package costs are rolled up to control account
costs and finally into project costs. This process is called cost aggregation.

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Also, the reserves should be added to the project. There can be 2 types of reserves added;
management reserve and contingency reserve. Contingency reserve is for the risks
remaining after risk response planning. Management reserve is any extra amount of funds
to be set aside to cover unforeseen risks or changes to the project. (Mulcahy, 2005)

8. Cost Budget $1,453

7. Management Reserve $68

6. Cost Baseline $ 1,355

5. Contingency Reserve $ 105

4. Project $ 1,250

3. Control Account $ 850 $400

2. Work Packages $ 100 $250 $500

1. Activities $25 $25 $25 $25

Figure 5: Cost Estimation and Budgeting Example

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4. EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT:
4.1. HISTORY
Earned Value Management (EVM) was born in the United States Department of Defense
in the 1960s. However, until the 1980s EVM technique was often ignored or even
actively resisted by project managers in both government and industry. In the late 1980s
and early 1990s, EVM emerged as a project management methodology to be understood
and used by managers and executives. In 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney
canceled the Navy A-12 Avenger II Program due to performance problems detected by
EVM. This showed that EVM started to matter to secretary-level leadership.

EVM was not limited to the DoD for long. It was quickly adopted by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Department of Energy and other
technology-related agencies. Also, many industrialized nations also began to utilize EVM
in their own procurement programs. Closer integration of EVM with project management
profession accelerated in the 1990s. The primary professional association for EVM,
called the Performance Management Association merged with the Project Management
Institute (PMI). Efforts to simplify and generalize EVM gained momentum in the early
2000s. The United States Office of Management and Budget began to mandate the use of
EVM across all government agencies and of course in the industry.
(http://en.wikipedia.org)

Green: Success – Implementation is proceeding according to plans agreed,
Yellow: Mixed Results – Some slippage/other issues requiring adjustment in order to achieve the objectives on timely basis,
Red: Unsatisfactory – Unlikely to realize objectives

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Figure 6: President’s Management Agenda Scorecard – 30/09/2008 (http://www.whitehouse.gov)

4.2. DEFINITION AND TERMINOLOGY
EVM combines three elements of budget, schedule and scope by using cost as the
common exchange medium. Thus, the unit of a project’s primary financial currency (e.g.
dollars, the Euro, YTL...) becomes the unit for all earned value measures. One can
therefore compare different measurements because they have a common basis.

For example, adding labor hours of an attorney and a bulldozer (or bulldozer operator)
makes no sense. Earned value avoids this problem by reducing efforts to a common basis
– costs – and measuring those costs in a common unit of currency.

To formalize the assumptions underlying earned value following definitions are made:
ER : Effort,
RI : Resource usage intensity,
∆t : Duration

ER = RI . ∆t (1)

CR : Cost rate : The units of these cost rates are currency units per unit effort (e.g.
dollars per attorney units) and the subscript R reminds us that the cost rate varies with
each individual resource. As a result C is the generic cost used in earned value
calculations. (Cioffi, 2006)

C = ER . CR (2)

Related to EVM, the project manager determines the value of a project’s fully completed
or partially completed efforts in the context of the cost that was budgeted and agreed
upon in the project plans. Only when a specified amount of task work is accomplished
does a project earn value and the amount of that value is determined by the cost that was
budgeted. This budgeted cost of work performed is referred as “earned value”. (Project
Management Institute Standards Committee, 2004)

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Earned Value (EV-BCWP) : What is the estimated value of the work actually
accomplished?

Planned Value (PV-BCWS) : What is the estimated value of the work planned to be
done?

Actual Cost (AC-ACWP) : What is the actual cost incurred for the work
accomplished?

Cost Variance (CV) = EV – AC (4) (Negative over budget, Positive under budget)

Schedule Variance (SV) = EV – PV (5) (Negative behind, Positive ahead of schedule)

As we see the differences between earned value and the two other costs tell whether a
project is on, ahead of, or behind budget or schedule. These differences traditionally are
referred as “variances”, since the actual project varies from its plans.
(http://www.gao.gov)

Figure 7: Overall program view of EVM data.

Cost Performance Index (CPI) = EV / AC (6) (Getting X $ work, out of every $1
spent)

Schedule Perf. Index (SPI) = EV / PV (7) (Progressing at X % of rate originally
planned) (Lipke, Zwikael, Henderson & Anbari, 2008)

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Budget at Completion (BAC) : How much did we BUDGET for the total project
effort?

Estimate at Completion (EAC): What do we currently expect the total project cost?

EAC = BAC / CPI (8)

Estimate to Complete (ETC) : From this point on, how much more do we expect it to
cost to finish the project?
ETC = EAC – AC (9)

Variance at Completion (VAC) : How much over or under budget do we expect to be at
the end of the project? (Mulcahy, 2005) VAC = BAC – EAC (10)

To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI) : This index tells management what
performance factor must be achieved on the remaining work in order to stay within the
financial goals. (Cioffi, 2006)

TCPI = Remaining Work = BAC – EV (11)
Funds Remaining BAC – AC

Figure 8: Illustrative Graphic Performance Report (Project Management Institute Standards
Committee, 2004)

Example: You have a project to build a new fence. The fence is four sided. Each side is
to take 1 day to build and is budgeted $ 1,000 per side. The sides are planned to be
completed one after the other. Today is the end of day 3. Using the project status chart
below, calculate planned and status values as of today. (Mulcahy, 2005)

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Activity Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Status End of Day 3
Complete spent $1,000
Side 1 S …… F
Complete spent $1,200
Side 2 S ……. PF ….F
50% done, spent $600
Side 3 PS ..S… PF
Not yet started
Side 4 PS …PF

What Is Solution Answer Interpretation
PV 1000 + 1000 + 1000 $ 3000 We should have done $300 worth of work.
We have actually completed $2500 worth of
EV 1000 + 1000 + 500 $ 2500
work.
AC 1000 + 1200 + 600 $ 2,800 We have actually spent $2800.
1000 + 1000 + 1000
BAC $ 4,000 Our project budget is $4000.
+ 1000

CV 2500 – 2800 -$300 We are over budget by $300.

We’re getting 89 cents out of every $1 we put
CPI 2500 / 2800 0.893
into project.

SV 2500 – 3000 -$500 We are behind schedule.

SPI 2500 / 3000 0.833 We’re progressing at 83% of rate planned.

We estimate that the total project will cost
EAC 4000 / 0.893 $ 4,479
$4,479.

We need to spend $1,679 to finish the project.
ETC 4,479 – 2,800 $ 1,679

We currently expect to be $479 over budget.
VAC 4000 – 4479 -$479

A sector example: Project Performance Monitoring Method of Turkish Bank

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Project Duration Variance:
Actual Analysis Duration + Actual Design Duration + Actual Coding Duration + Actual Test Duration
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1
Planned Analysis Duration + Planned Design Duration + Planned Coding Duration +Planned Test Duration

Project Effort Variance:
Actual Analysis Effort + Actual Design Effort + Actual Coding Effort + Actual Test Effort
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1
Planned Analysis Effort + Planned Design Effort + Planned Coding Effort + Planned Test Effort

Project Performance Monitoring:
Project Performance Valuation Related to Duration and Effort Variance

Duration Variance % Effort Variance %
0-1 100 0-1 100
2-5 95 2-10 95
6-10 90 11-15 90
11-15 85 16-20 85
16-20 80 21-25 80
21-25 75 26-35 75
26-35 70 36-50 70
>36 65 >51 65

This project management office aims project variances not to exceed %25.

Project Name Duration Variance Effort Variance Duration Valuation Effort Valuation
………… 11% 58% 85 65
………… 8% 0% 90 100
…………
…………
Total 16% 22% 80 80

(9th National Project Management Congress, 2008)

4.3. IMPROVEMENTS ON EARNED VALUE TECHNIQUE

Schedule Factor (Fs) = 1 / CPI = AC / EV (12)

Cost Factor (Fc) = 1 / SPI = PV / EV (13)

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Both the actual cost and the scheduled cost are compared to the same quantity: the
budgeted cost (earned value). Because they have a common denominator, they can be
added together directly, suggesting the possibility of a new, combined parameter that
examines both cost and schedule together. To see how the health of various projects
compares to their original plans, an executive in charge of more than a few projects wants
to examine a minimum number of indicators per project. This can be the cost-schedule
performance factor (Φ):

Φ = Fc + Fs – 1 + [(Fc - Fs)2 / 2]1/2 (14)

• The subtraction of 1 allows the combined factor to equal 1, if a factor is both on
schedule and on budget.
• The square root of the difference between the factors, squared, adds to the sum so that
the effect of one high individual factor cannot be hidden by a low number in the other
factor.

For example, if Fc = 3 / 4 and Fs = 4 / 3 => Fc + Fs – 1 = 1 (approximately)
The square root term adds 0.41 so that Φ = 1.5, which highlights quickly the problem
waiting to be discovered in the project’s schedule.

Some earned value advocates maintain that the product of the standard cost and schedule
indices, called the “Critical Ratio”, crates a good combined factor, but in the example just
provided, that product is 4 / 3 . 3 / 4 = 1. A critical ratio of 1 says everything is
proceeding according to plan, but most executives would want to know if one of their
projects was 33 % behind schedule (Fs – 1 = 0,33); when glancing down a single column
of numbers, Φ = 1.5 would alert them quickly. (Cioffi, 2006)

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CONCLUSION

Earned Value Management doesn’t used only for the past of a project, but used for the
future. If earned value measurements show that a project is 15% behind schedule and no
management changes are made (unfortunately, sometimes the case), a project will
continue to run at that rate and will finish 15% behind schedule. As a result EVM
instrument should start to be used as soon as the project starts in order to complete the
project in schedule and budget limits.

On the other hand, EVM has no provision to measure project quality, so it is possible for
EVM to indicate a project is under budget, ahead of schedule and scope fully executed,
but still have unhappy clients and ultimately unsuccessful results.

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REFERENCES

1. Project Management Institute Standards Committee, A guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 3rd ed. Newtown Square, PA: Project
Management Institute, Inc., 2004.

2. Mulcahy Rita, Project Management Professional Examination Prep, 5th Edition, RMC
Publications, 2005.

3. Cioffi Denis F., 2006, “Designing project management: A scientific notation and an
improved formalism for earned value calculations”, International Journal of Project
Management 24, pp 36 – 144.

4. Lipke Walt, Zwikael Ofer, Henderson Kym, Anbari Frank, 2008, “Prediction of
project outcome”, International Journal of Project Management.

5. 9th National Project Management Congress – Project Performance Management Notes
- Istanbul. 4-5 April 2008.

6. www.pmi.org, Project Management Institute

7. http://en.wikipedia.org, Earned Value Management

8. http://www.whitehouse.gov, President’s Management Agenda

9. http://www.gao.gov, U.S. Government Accountability Service

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