Earned Value Management in “The Measurable News 2016.01”

The Measurable News ist die vierteljährliche Publikation des “College of Performance Management”. Das College of Performance Management (CPM) ist eine globale, gemeinnützige Organisation. Sie konzentriert sich auf die sich auf die Entwicklung und Verbreitung der Prinzipien und Praktiken von Earned Value Management (EVM) und andere Management-Techniken der Projektleistung und des Projektcontrollings.

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Die neuste Ausgabe von “The Measurable News”

In der neusten Ausgabe 2016.01 (PDF 4MB) sind mehrere interessante Artikel, speziell zu Earned Value Management publiziert.

  • Examination of the Threshold for the To Complete Indexes (Walt Lipke)
  • How It All Began: The Creation of Earned Value and the Evolution of C/SPCS and C/SCSC (James B. Morin)
  • EVMS – After the Evolution: The Long Slow Road (Gary C. Humphreys)
  • The Two Most Useful Earned Value Metrics: the CPI and the TCPI (Quentin W. Fleming and Joel M. Koppelman)
  • The To Complete Performance Index… An Expanded View (Walt Lipke)

Einige Artikel wurden schon vor ein paar Jahren publiziert, sind aber immer noch aktuell und sehr informativ. Speziell der Artikel von Quentin W. Fleming and Joel M. Koppelman, über CPI und TCPI auf auf Seite 23 enthält einen sehr intressanten Abschnitt mit dem Titel:

Earned Value Management (EVM) – The Ten Requirements

Das Comittment zum EVM Einsatz erfordert sowohl die Einhaltung bestimmter Grund-Anforderungen sowie die Disziplin von jedem der das Projekt unterstützen. Bezogen auf ihrer Erfahrung haben sie nachfolgend die zehn wichtigsten Voraussetzungen aufgeführt, um EVM erfolgreich zu implementieren. Manche finden diese Anforderungen überwältigend – vieles ist aber gutes Projektmanagement. Überzeugen Sie sich selbst.

Diese Anforderungen sind:

  1. EVM requires that the project be fully understood, defined, and scoped to include 100%
    of the project effort. You need to know what constitutes 100% of the work in order to
    measure progress along the way.
  2. EVM requires that the defined scope be decomposed, broken down into major
    management tasks, which are selected as points of management control,2 then planned
    and scheduled down to the detailed work package level.
  3. EVM requires that an integrated and measurable project baseline be authorized,
    relating the scope of work directly to an achievable budget, then locked into a specific
    time-frame for performance measurement. It’s called: bottom-up planning.
  4. EVM requires that only authorized and budgeted work be accomplished. The effort
    being worked must be tightly controlled. Scope creep cannot be allowed. All changes
    must be managed, and not worked until specifically authorized by the project manager.
  5. EVM requires that physical performance be measured (the earned value) using
    previously defined schedule metrics.
  6. EVM requires that the values earned be related to the planned values to reflect
    performance against the project baseline. Earned value less the planned value
    represents a variance from the baseline plan.
  7. EVM requires that the actual costs being reported be consistent with the earned
    value being measured, to allow for an accurate portrayal of cost performance. The
    relationship of values earned to actual costs reflects the true cost performance. Earned
    value less actual costs provides cost performance.
  8. EVM requires that forecasts be made periodically (weekly, monthly) as to how much
    time, and how much money it will take to complete 100% of the project.
  9. EVM requires that a full disclosure of actual results be made to all persons who have a
    vested interest in the project. All stakeholders will receive the same actual performance
    results. Only one set of books is allowed.
  10. EVM requires that project management, in conjunction with management at all levels,
    and customer stakeholders, decide on the appropriate actions to be taken to stay
    within authorized project expectations.

Wären diese Mindestanforderungen für Projekte in Ihrem Unternehmen zu hoch? Wenden Sie vielleicht EVM schon an und was sind Ihre Erfahrungen damit? Ich freue mich auf Ihren Kommentar.

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