Earned Schedule 10 Years Later Analyzing Military Programs

Abstract

It has been 10 years since Walt Lipke first introduced the concept of Earned Schedule (ES). While progress has been made in understanding the utility of ES in some small scale and limited studies, a significant analysis of ES in DoD acquisition programs is missing. This paper first analyzes whether ES and Earned Value Management (EVM) provide fundamentally different information for program managers. It then examines which technique, ES or EVM, provides more timely and accurate schedule predictors in a broad spectrum of military weapon system programs. We find ES to be more timely and accurate both in software intensive contracts and in the sample size as a whole.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA600801

Entities

People

  • Edward L White
  • Jonathan D. Ritschel
  • Kevin T. Crumrine

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Operations
  • Avionics
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Electronic Mail
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Military Acquisition
  • Program Management
  • Spectra

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