Welcome to EarnedValue.org Your definitive earned value management portal
Welcome to earnedvalue.org, your independent portal to the world of Earned Value. This site has been designed to provide a central source of information for project oriented individuals and organizations.
Whether you are new to EV or have been a practitioner of years, you will find helpful resources to help you navigate EV for compliance and beyond. If you have any content you would like to contribute to this website, or have an industry event that you believe would be of interest to our members, please contact us.
We hope you find this site interesting. This is a living site with new content, white papers, presentations, etc. added often, so please come back on a frequent basis to see what's new.
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Rubbish! gantthead.com – August 25, 2010 Earned value management can only help if you understand the limitations of the data you're using to calculate the numbers. In "Garbage In, Garbage Out", we look at the specific planning and tracking requirements for EVM – and the aspects that a project manager has to consider in preparing and managing a project for it.
EVM Q&A gantthead.com – August 25, 2010 Are you ready for EVM? Our writer conducted a study on earned value management readiness based on 40 critical factors found in successful EVM implementations, and here we present the “Top 10 Questions for EVM Readiness”.
Obama sends 30 technology projects back to the drawing board nextgov.com – August 23, 2010 The Obama administration announced that about 30 mission-critical information technology projects, collectively worth $30 billion, will be reworked and possibly cut.
A Measure of Time Projects@Work – August 13, 2010 Here is a real-world primer, supported by helpful utilities, on Earned Schedule, what it reveals about overall schedule performance, and how specific tasks can affect it.
Gates announces major cuts at Defense Government Executive – August 9, 2010 “This agenda is not about cutting the department's budget,” Gates said at a Pentagon press briefing on Monday.
The Three Deadly Sins of EVM Gantthead.com – August 9, 2010 One must assume from all of this activity that EVM is a tremendously good and awesome thing. And it is, to an extent.
Defense CIO confirmation on ice for now Defense Systems – August 5, 2010 Teri Takai's confirmation hearings on hold as the Defense Secretary reviews organizational structure.
New law requires OMB to post information on contractors Nextgov.com – August 4, 2010 A bill President Obama recently signed requires the Office of Management and Budget to disclose on a public website contractor integrity information housed in a new vendor performance database, reversing a recent decision by the Defense Department to block public access to the entire database.
The Secret Life of Projects, Part 3 Projects@Work – August 3, 2010 Projects have their share of fertile fallacies, and the profession of project work might be encapsulated into this small insight, that our theories of how things are supposed to work are probably wrong, and wrong in ways that we could not possibly understand yet.
In Search of True Value gantthead.com – August 2, 2010 Maybe it's time to rethink the concept of EV as a way to measure project performance and progress.
The EV Foundation gantthead.com – August 2, 2010 Earned value. What is it about the concept that sends some people into a near-frenzied state?
Execution Meltdown: Four Failures That Sank BP Projects@Work – July 27, 2010 A number of factors contributed to the worst oil spill in history, but most of them can be attributed to one colossal problem at BP – lack of execution. Here's what went wrong … and what project leaders can learn from BP's failures.
Survey Says: Experience and Environment Projects@Work – June 3, 2010 Do you like your boss? What's your work environment like? How long have you been involved in managing projects?
