A practical guide to earned value project management / Charles I. Budd, Charlene S. Budd.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index.

pt. 1. Introduction -- Background and motivation -- Project management -- pt. 2. The basics of earned value -- Earned value metrics -- The earned value management system -- pt. 3. It's all in the plan -- The project plan (criterion 1) -- The organization (criteria 2-5) -- The schedule (criteria 6-8) -- The budget (criteria 9-15) -- pt. 4. Project status -- Tracking performance (criteria 16-21) -- Reporting variances (criteria 22-27) -- pt. 5. Handling a project's changes and termination -- Time for a change (criteria 28-32) -- Are we there yet? -- pt. 6. Earned value implementations -- Implementing EVMS -- Government contracts -- Partial EV implementations -- pt. 7. Emerging practices -- Earned schedule -- Critical chain project management -- Appendix A: The 32 EVMS criteria -- Appendix B: Discussion responses.