Measuring Time: Improving Project Performance Using Earned Value Management

✍ Scribed by Mario Vanhoucke (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 195
Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 136
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Meant to complement rather than compete with the existing books on the subject, this book deals with the project performance and control phases of the project life cycle to present a detailed investigation of the project’s time performance measurement methods and risk analysis techniques in order to evaluate existing and newly developed methods in terms of their abilities to improve the corrective actions decision-making process during project tracking. As readers apply what is learned from the book, EVM practices will become even more effective in project management and cost engineering. Individual chapters look at simulation studies in forecast accuracy; schedule adherence; time sensitivity; activity sensitivity; and using top-down or bottom-up project tracking. Vanhoucke also offers an actual real-life case study, a tutorial on the use of ProTrack software (newly developed based on his research) in EVM, and conclusions on the relative effectiveness for each technique presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
The EVM Fundamentals....Pages 1-24
Beyond the EVM Fundamentals....Pages 25-35
A Case Study....Pages 37-49
A Simulation Study....Pages 51-86
Time Sensitivity....Pages 87-105
Top-down or Bottom-up Project Tracking....Pages 107-119
ProTrack: A Software Tutorial....Pages 121-147
Conclusions....Pages 149-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-164

✦ Subjects

Operations Research/Decision Theory; Industrial and Production Engineering; Construction Management

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