Project Financial Management: Baselines, EVM, and Project Performance

This report delves into the critical aspects of project financial management, emphasizing the significance of project baselines—schedule, scope, and cost—as benchmarks for performance measurement. It highlights how these baselines are essential for tracking project progress and controlling changes that could drastically impact project outcomes. The report further explores the role of Earned Value Management (EVM) as a technique for measuring project performance objectively by integrating scope, cost, and time, aiding project managers in forecasting and addressing potential issues. Additionally, it touches upon change management as a systematic approach to organizational transitions, illustrating how both EVM and effective change management plans assist project managers in navigating the project lifecycle efficiently. The document provides a concise overview of key concepts and their application in ensuring project success.

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Table of Contents
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Question 1
Importance of Project Baselines in Project Performance
The project baselines are considered as the primary requirements for any project. The
baseline is the respective value as well as condition against which each and every future
measurement is being compared. In project management, there are three distinct baselines,
known as schedule baseline, scope baseline and cost baseline (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017).
The proper combination of these three project baselines is the baseline for performance
measurement for any project. It is extremely important for all projects since baseline is the
fixed schedule that represents the standard, utilized for the proper measurement of project
performance.
When the project scope is being changed, the specified schedule must be accustomed
and hence a newer revision of that particular baselines must be utilized. According to the
project management rules, the establishment of the project baseline is termed as the formal
end of project plan and also the initiation of the project execution and control (Burke, 2013).
The controlling of project baseline is one of the major aspect for project success. The changes
could drastically impact the project and thus this is extremely important and significant for all
projects.
Question 2
Discussing how EVM and Change Management Plan help Project Managers in
Prioritization and Adjustment of Baselines in PLC
EVM or earned value management is stated as the technique for project management,
which helps in the measurement of project progress as well as performance within an
objective manner. This particular technique has the core capability of combining the various
project management measurements like scope, cost and time (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017). It is

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extremely helpful for the project managers as it has the ability to provide appropriate forecast
of project performance problem. Moreover, the other areas like control and planning are also
impacted by the utilization for the project managers. With the help of methodology, the
project scope is being improved and project performance is analysed properly. The major
features of the EVM implementation are project plan, budget cost of work schedule or
BCWS, budget cost of the work performed or BCWP (Burke, 2013). Regarding change
management, it is the systematic approach that helps in dealing with the transformation or
transition of the organizational processes, technologies and goals. Both EVM and a good plan
of change management help the project managers to execute the project life cycle easily and
promptly.

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References
Burke, R. (2013). Project management: planning and control techniques. New Jersey, USA.
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.