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Scope, Schedule and Cost Control: Earned Value for Real Projects

Learn to set scope, schedule and cost baselines, measure progress honestly with earned value, forecast completion and control change on real IT projects.

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Free 48-page e-book. A practical guide to baselines, change control and earned value management for IT and business transformation projects. Practical, field-tested guidance with worked examples, checklists, a quick-reference sheet and a glossary, ready to use on your next project.

Earned value management is often taught as a set of exam formulas and then ignored on real projects. This e-book shows project managers, PMO analysts and PMP candidates how to use it practically. You will learn how to build scope, schedule and cost baselines, choose progress measurement rules that resist optimism, calculate variances and performance indices, forecast cost and completion date with EAC and earned schedule, adapt earned value to agile and hybrid delivery, and use change control to keep baselines meaningful. Worked examples, formula tables, checklists and an end-to-end illustrative ERP scenario make the methods ready to apply.

What's inside

  • Chapter 1: Integrated Control — Why Scope, Schedule and Cost Belong Together
  • Chapter 2: The Scope Baseline — WBS, Acceptance and Scope Control
  • Chapter 3: The Schedule Baseline — Building a Plan Worth Measuring
  • Chapter 4: The Cost Baseline — Budgets, Reserves and the S-Curve
  • Chapter 5: Earned Value Fundamentals
  • Chapter 6: Measuring Progress Honestly
  • Chapter 7: Forecasting — Where Will We End Up?
  • Chapter 8: Earned Value in Agile and Hybrid Projects
  • Chapter 9: Change Control and Baseline Management
  • Chapter 10: Reporting Variance and Taking Action
  • Chapter 11: End-to-End Scenario — EVM on an ERP Project

Plus a one-page Quick Reference, a glossary of key terms and next steps.

Who it's for

Project and program managers, PMP candidates, PMOs and delivery leads.

How to get the most from it

  • Skim the contents and jump to the chapter that matches the challenge in front of you today
  • Use the checklists in your next workshop, review or status meeting
  • Share it with your team so everyone works from the same playbook

Let's connect

I'm Pranshu Shubham, a Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O Solution Architect and PMP-certified program lead with 8+ years of ERP and AI transformation across the USA, Europe and APAC. I created this resource from real project experience, and I'd love to hear how you use it.