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chapter three
Tracking projects by
investment value
“How are projects measured, tracked, and judged?”
Let us imagine that our company performs lots of very similar projects,
what we might call “cookie-cutter” projects, with identical scope: building
identical fast food restaurants, for instance. Performance to schedule and
cost are the two primary metrics by which every project is tracked. Let us
imagine that the planned duration for each of these projects is six months,
with a budget of $500,000.
Each of these projects is now nished, with the results as shown in the
table in Figure3.1. Which was a better result?
• Was Project A better, to ta ...