Earned Schedule min-max: Two new EVM metrics for monitoring and controlling projects

[EN] Earned Value Management (EVM) is a well-known project management technique for monitoring project pro-gress. Over the last 15 years, many promising EVM metrics have been proposed to get, among other improve-ments, better actual project duration and cost estimates. Papers comparing the performan...

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Authors: Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo|||0000-0002-4629-9664, González-Cruz, María-Carmen|||0000-0002-6987-5732, Fuentes Bargues, José Luis|||0000-0003-4877-3291, Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644, Sanz-Ablanedo, E., Mora-Melià, Daniel
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/140859
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/140859
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Earned value
Earned schedule
Earned duration
Project duration
Deterministic techniques
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DEL TERRENO
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Summary:[EN] Earned Value Management (EVM) is a well-known project management technique for monitoring project pro-gress. Over the last 15 years, many promising EVM metrics have been proposed to get, among other improve-ments, better actual project duration and cost estimates. Papers comparing the performance of all these metricsare, however, scarce and sometimes contradictory.In this paper, a simulation and empirical comparison of 26 deterministic project duration forecasting tech-niques under the EVM framework is developed. Among them, two new metrics: Earned Schedule min (ESmin) andEarned Schedule max (ESmax) are proposed.ESminandESmaxoffer a new and simpler activity-level calculationapproach of the traditional Earned Schedule metric. Top performing (most accurate) metrics: Earned Schedule(ES), Earned Duration (ED) and Effective Earned Schedule (ES(e)) with Performance Factor 1 (PF= 1), areslightly outperformed by the new metrics which also offer some interesting applications for enhanced projectcontrol.