Earned Value Management: Making it Personal; Making it Work!!!

Abstract

Defence, government, and commercial organisations have used earned value management (EVM) techniques for years - with varying degrees of success. The Australian Ministry of Defence has required its suppliers use EVM for decades and industry has complied; some organisations use EVM to manage the project (internal-looking) and to coordinate effectively with stakeholders (external-looking) others find little value, bogging down in numbers, reporting, and bureaucracy. This paper presents the work of an organisation with which I have worked: Fujitsu Australia Ltd, in Canberra. They have embraced EVM enhancing relationships with customers and throughout the entire team. This presentation contains little "new theory" for those using EVM effectively today. The key value of Fujitsu's work comes in how they have "humanised" EVM - including using practical "plain English" for the EVM code-words - and made it accessible - "personal" - to all stakeholders.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA558248

Entities

People

  • Judy Bamberger

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Australia
  • Business Administration
  • Case Studies
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Gap Analysis
  • Governments
  • Language
  • Life Cycles
  • Organizational Structure
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Standards
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Materials Science.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).