The Earned Value Management Maturity Model

CHAPTER 3

Requirements for Earned Value Management

When an organization’s personnel say they do earned value management, it is important to know how they do it. If the firm is your subcontractor, you might rely on its earned value management performance reports to report how your project is going. If you are paying progress payments, you might use its earned value management data to set the payment amount. If the organization will be providing you a key subassembly, you might use earned value management data to increase staff levels in anticipation of its arrival.

This book discusses the Earned Value Management Maturity Model (EVM³).¹ Since a ...