Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Inside Out

Chapter 13. Analyzing Progress Using Earned Value

• Generating Earned Value Data

• Reviewing Earned Value Data

As part of your efforts in tracking and controlling your project, you might want to analyze certain aspects of project performance. Project analysis, which you might think of as "project data crunching," can give you a closer look at the overall execution of the project. For first-time efforts at managing a particular kind of project or for new variations on an established project theme, you and your stakeholders might want to see performance indicators and estimates for the remainder of the project. These indicators help assess the effectiveness of the plan and define the amount of corrective action needed to make actual performance in the ...