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Description: Enrichment activity: Earned Value Management Across Industries- Managing project cost. 1. Based on the theory in the notes, the interactive video, the enrichment activity content and any industry experience you may have, discuss how Earned Value Management (EVM) can be used to control project performance in your preferred industry.

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Earned Value Management across Industries
EVM is a technique or method used to measure the activity amount that has actually been
performed by the supervisor on any project beyond basic schedule and cost review result. This
method permits the projects to be measured through progress activities (Fleming & Koppelman,
2016). EV can also be defined as a budgeted cost of work that is already performed by the
project associates. Not only this but also, in order to calculate performances indices, cost burn
rate and schedule performances EVM method is used.
For global competitiveness and economic success most the industries there days use the
concept of EVM. It helps to relate time phased budget with particular work statement and
contract activities. It also delivers valid, auditable as well as data timely to manage project
proactively. It provides the basis that captures evolution of work considering the baseline project
plan running inside an industry. EVM project tracking approach can generate more information
than the normal project tracking (Chen, Chen & Lin, 2016). Using EVM project related schedule
variance, cost performance index, cost variance, schedule performance index, earned value,
actual cost and planned value can be generated. The EVM approach helps to reach great project
control activities along with greater visibility. Apart from this, the process of communication and
project quality management become more effective after the application of EVM in the project.
It will improve the accountability, visibility and scalability of any running project in an industry.

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References
Chen, H. L., Chen, W. T., & Lin, Y. L. (2016). Earned value project management: Improving the
predictive power of planned value. International Journal of Project Management, 34(1),
22-29.
Fleming, Q. W., & Koppelman, J. M. (2016, December). Earned value project management.
Project Management Institute.