Estimate Activity Duration – 6 Tools

Estimate Activity Duration Process in Project Management- 6 Tools infographic

Professionals who aim at building up a career as a project manager must learn how to create a complete and comprehensive project schedule. Basically, a schedule is a list of project deliverables, tasks, and milestones with planned start and finish … Read more

Schedule Performance Index and Cost Performance Index

Schedule Performance Index Formula and Example - Cost Performance Index Formula and Example

Earned Value Analysis (EVA) uses specific parameters that help you to measure the current performance of a project. You can determine the project’s cost and schedule over-runs at any stages with them. They evaluate how the project is performing by … Read more

Project Procurement Management: Best Practices

importance of procurement management and best practices in project management and in construction. project procurement plan

Project procurement management involves more commercial decision-making than most project managers are trained for. Not the administrative side — issuing purchase orders, filing contracts — but the decisions that actually determine project outcomes: what to outsource, what contract structure to … Read more

Earned Value Management System and Formulas

Earned Value Management , Planned Value, Actual Cost

There are roughly a dozen formulas in the earned value management formula set. Most EVM training presents them in a tidy sequence — PV, EV, AC, then the variance formulas, then the indices, then the forecasting formulas — as if … Read more

Earned Value Management Example: The EAC Formula Nobody Picks Correctly

Earned Value Management Example & Tutorial infographic

Something bothered me for a long time about how earned value management gets taught. Pick up any earned value management example or training material and you’ll find the EAC formula — Estimate at Completion, the forecast of total project cost … Read more