“Project Management Using Earned Value”
ISBN: 0-9708614-0-0 ($125.00 + shipping)

This book establishes a new definitive resource in the field of Earned Value Project Management. No other resource addresses all aspects of Earned Value Project Management in this manner, or to this degree.  No other resource contains all of the information necessary to take you from understanding to implementation. This book is designed for anyone with a basic familiarity with the requirements and disciplines of project management who desires to know more about planning and control and how to to improve these processes through the use of Earned Value. The material in this book has been drawn from the collective experiences of the author and many of the Humphreys & Associates personnel, consultants in project and program management for over 30 years. The chapters have been grouped into sections, each section representing a major activity in the planning and control process, Organization, Scheduling, Estimating, and Earned Value.  There is also a section on Implementation.  Also included are process flowcharts, chapter and section quizzes, case studies, and appendices. Over 900 pages!

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This handbook is designed to provide managers with a quick guide to understanding the use of a performance measurement system. Performance measurement is an achievement oriented management system / approach using the Earned Value concept. The Earned Value concept recognizes that the standard comparison of budget vs. actual cost is not an adequate indicator of progress. Earned Value is a value assigned to work which was accomplished through a particular period in time. This value can be stated in any measurable unit appropriate, i.e., time in hours (or portions thereof), lines of code for software, pounds of steel, cubic yards of concrete, etc. At executive levels, these measurements will be displayed in the desired currency because it is the common denominator. It should be useful to Control Account Managers, Functional Managers, Business Managers, Program Managers, Contract Administrators, etc.

There have been many textbooks which attempted to discuss the concept of performance measurement using the earned value concept. They have been primarily oriented toward the Department of Defense environment. This text is written to address all environments - energy, construction, aerospace, defense, environmental management, etc. in all countries. Countries with a successful history of using this concept are Australia, Canada, England, Sweden and the United States of America. There are some 500 organizations who employ this concept around the world. While there have been many initial attempts to describe this discipline, one person is credited with documenting examples integrated with technical concepts which are best understood by first-time readers. Most of all the documented training material in the world can be traced to Bob Kemps. Since retiring after 30 plus years service to the United States government, he has expanded his expertise by engaging in management consulting where he has satisfied all the conceptual challenges presented.

This is a textbook dedicated to people involved in performance management: whether you are in a university about to enter the workplace, young project manager, cost accountant, engineer or scheduler from either the contractor or customer perspective. The old approach of comparing budgets to actual costs and comparing the original to forecasted and actual schedules is too inefficient to survive the economic challenges with which we now live. The performance management approach integrates technical, schedule and cost goals into a highly visible management tool we need to survive.