August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
174 pages
3h 9m
English
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AC. See Actual cost
Activities
defining, 26–27
sequence, 27
Activity on node (AON), 28
Actual cost (AC), 76
AON. See Activity on node
Application areas, 6
Backward pass, 36–38
Construction projects
complex, 2
phases of, 2–3
types of, 4
Control account, 62–63
Cost baseline, 61
Cost performance index (CPI), 76–77
Cost tree structure, 62–63
Cost variance (CV), 76
CPI. See Cost performance index
Critical path
definition, 36
MS-Project example, 38–41
sample network, 36
Custom reports, generating, 90–98
CV. See Cost variance
Discretionary dependencies, 100
Earned value (EV), 76
Earned value analysis (EVA)
forecasting, 77–78
simple example, 76–77
understanding key terms and metrics, 74–76
using MS-Project, 79–85
Earned value management (EVM), ...
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