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chapter nine
Advanced earned value
“How can I tell what earned value is really saying?”
Chapter 8 summarizes the workings and the purpose of earned value and
earned value tracking: what it is, what it isn’t, how to x some of its faults
and distortions, and how to use it. If you previously had only a limited sense
of the fundamental workings of earned value, Chapter 8 was intended to
inform you about the basic techniques. If you feel comfortable with that
information, you probably have a better comprehension of earned value,
both its appropriate uses and its shortcomings, than most of its practitioners.
However, a little more needs to be sa