This seems to be the week for me reposting other peoples work. On the LinkedIn EVMS group, which has lively discussions about the application of EV - Kym Henderson answered a question about success stories for EV.
The title is EVM 2.0: Lessons Learned from the LHC Project Collaborative EVM System
I know the 2.0 moniker is a shock, but in this case 2.0 is truly the next step from 1.0. This presentation has great background on the LHC as well as introducing a concept close to my heart - Deliverables Based Planning® is our phrase for what is described as Deliverables-Oriented EVMS.
The core concepts from the EV perspective are:
- The Integrated Master Plan (IMP) describes the increasing maturity of the products or services of the project.
- The Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) describes the sequence of the Work Packages containing tasks that produce the deliverables. These may be incremental deliverables of final form deliverables.
- Each Work Package contains tasks, whose EV method is 0/100 for the vast majority of cases.
- The computation of Physical Percent Complete for the Work Package is done by summing the weighted tasks to get the Percent Complete for the Work Package.
- The measure of 0/100 comes from tangible evidence. Never the passage of time or consumption of resources.
Here's the familiar diagram of the IMP/IMS
The Work Package sequence defines the horizontal schedule. The Work Package, Criteria, Accomplishment, Program Event defines the vertical integration of the description of the increasing maturity.
