Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

13 Project Evaluation and Control

Chapter Objectives

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

1. 13.1 Understand the nature of the control cycle and the four key steps in a general project control model.

2. 13.2 Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of common project evaluation and control methods.

3. 13.3 Understand how Earned Value Management can assist project tracking and evaluation.

4. 13.4 Use Earned Value Management for project portfolio analysis.

5. 13.5 Understand critical issues in the effective use of Earned Value Management.

6. 13.6 Understand behavioral concepts and other human issues in evaluation and control.

7. 13.7 From Appendix 13.1 : Understand the advantages of Earned Schedule methods for determining project schedule variance, schedule ...