Earned Value Management (EVM) Demystified

Earned Value Management (EVM) is one of the key topics in most all project management courses and is part of the Project Management Institute's PMP® certification and PMBOK®. However, many software project managers do not understand EVM well-and even fewer practice it well. James McCaffrey demystifies EVM, explores its benefits, and clearly explains the often confusing terminology-planned value, earned value, actual cost, schedule variance, schedule performance index, cost variance, and cost performance index. In this hands-on class, you'll practice EVM techniques through a set of short and simple exercises within a case study. Leave with a rock solid understanding of the assumptions made by EVM, how to compute and correctly interpret EVM metrics, when EVM techniques are appropriate to use, and when alternative approaches are more suitable.