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Understanding Earned Value Management

GES 415 -- 30 hours

Course Overview/Description

Understanding Earned Value Management is critical to your project success. It allows you to more objectively measure project performance. In this course, you will learn what is necessary to plan and manage your project utilizing Earned Value concepts. The course is designed to walk you through the process using a case study from start to finish. Several exercises are incorporated into the format to give you hands-on practice.

Earned Value is a proven method for planning and managing project performance. In addition to establishing a consistent way of planning and estimating all types of project work efforts, it provides the framework for developing consistent project management measurements across projects and industries. It is the true project performance measurement system. It is promoted and supported by the PMI College of Performance Management (PMI-CPM), it has been accepted as the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) standard and private contractors for Deportment of Defense (DoD) are now held responsible for using these techniques in their government contracts (ANSI/EIA-Standard 748).