Chapter 1. Earned Value Project Management ... An Introduction[*]
“Earned value” is a project management technique that is emerging as a valuable tool in the management of all projects, including and in particular software projects. In its most simple form earned value equates to fundamental project management. Here these authors describe the technique in a storybook form. It is not necessarily a true story ... but it could be.
Once upon a time there was a young man who wanted to be a project manager. Don’t ask us why.
In school, the young man took the most challenging of the technical subjects, but he also liked to manage things. He graduated with a master’s degree in a technical discipline and immediately went to work for a small but fast-growing ...
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