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Monitoring and Controlling
Monitoring and Controlling
Project Management:
The Basics for Success
Module 4
So you can
Amount of
Work
Scheduled
for
Completion
Earned Value Management
A tool that shows both SPENDING and
PROGRESS on the same chart
What does this tell us?
Ahead of Schedule and Over Spent
700000
600000
500000
Spending (Dollars))
400000 PV
EV
300000 AC
200000
100000
0
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Time (Weeks)
The Best of Everything
Schedule on Target and Spending on Target
600000
500000
Spending (Dollars)
400000
PV
300000 EV
AC
200000
100000
0
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Time (Weeks)
Tracking the Project
So you can
• Successfully deliver results
Crashing the Project
A specific type of project schedule
compression technique … to decrease the
total project schedule duration…Typical
approaches …include reducing schedule
activity durations and increasing assignment
of resources