Performance-Based Earned Value

"Performance-Based Earned Value" shows how to improve an organization's EVM practices within the framework and guidance in the following capability models and standards: Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process (IEEE STD-2005); Processes for Engineering a System (EIA-632); Capability Maturity Model[registered] Integration (CMMI[registered]); and Practical Software and Systems Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management (PSM).

Clear and unambiguous instructions show how to integrate EVM with key SE processes such as Requirements Management, Measurement and Product Quality Assurance and how to correlate TPM with EVM.

The book also explains how to link product requirements, project work products, the project plan and PBEV and shows how to manage project risks by integrating EVM with Risk Management and TPM in accordance with the project management standard, PMBOK.

It includes the fundamentals of EVM for those using EVM for the first time or preparing for the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) examination.Recent Federal Acquisition Regulation and OMB requirements for EVMS have increased the awareness and the need for EVM.

It provides educational value to EVM novices by teaching the fundamentals.

It explains how to implement EVM with key software engineering processes such as risk management in accordance with project management standards.

It provides innovative methods, examples and templates.

It provides specific guidance for customers, including government agencies on acquisition management using EVM.