APM's Earned Value site

Defense Systems Management College Earned Value Management Gold Card is a fold-over card with all the EVMS definitions and a simple graph.

Earned Value Maturity Model site contains profiles of EV maturity as well as white papers on maturity.

Earned Value Management

Technical Performance Management – is a plan of expected technical achievement to which the actual progress is compared using periodic measurements or tests.

Earned Value Management tools list at Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics site.

Defense Acquisition University has many resources on EVMS.

Nasa's Earned Value Management page

Another NASA EV site

NHH Enterprise EVMS site provides resources about EVMS for government projects.

wInsight is a commercial add on for MSFT Project that provides extensive EVMS views.

MTCA Performance Management Symposiums

MTC Australia articles

Defense Contract Management Agency

Project Knowledge Bank's Earned Value resource list.

Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis, SCEA National Conference proceedings

Earned Value Management Maturity Mode

US Navy EVMS Criteria

Practical Software & Systems Measurement is an issue-driven measurement process that will address the unique technical and business goals of your organization. The guidance in PSM represents the best practices used by measurement professionals within the software and system acquisition and engineering communities.

The Metric Center is a project management metrics site.

Ontrack

Quentin Fleming

Costs and Benefits of the Earned Value Management Process, David S. Christensen, Acquisition Quarterly Review, Fall 1998.

A Simple introduction to EVMS at the Project Management magazine.

• Earned Value Management Part 1

• Earned Value Management Part 2

• Earned Value Management Part 3

Earned Value Management Implementation Guide, NAVSO Pamphlet 3627

EVMS Maturity Guide (July 01, word doc)

Earned Value Management Implementation Guide (word doc)

Earned Value Management Implementation Guide (word doc). Another source from Los Angeles AF Base.

Simple overview of EVMS from the CIO's office of NOAA

EVMS Guidebook (word doc)

Using EVMS on COTS–Based Systems, CMU/SEI–2002–TR–022.

Papers, Speeches, and Presentations on EV

Earned Value Management (EVM): TOC/CAIV Workshop, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Acquisition Reform 2000.

EVMS Bibliography hosted by David Christensen

Project Management using Earned Value

EIA Standard: Earned Value Management Systems, EIA–748–A

Earned Value Clear and Simple, T. T. Wilkens in the US Army Corp of Engineers Project Management Web Depot

Earned Value Management for Self Directed Software Teams, Steve Lett, Software Engineering Process Group, Lockheed Martin.

Evaluating the Accuracy of the Estimate at Completion,

Earned Value papers from OSD

Earned Value Body of Knowledge Quentin Fleming and Joel Koppelman,  30th Annual Project Management Institute 1999 Seminars and Symposium

Earned Value Project Management a Powerful Tool for Software Projects, Quentin Fleming and Joel Koppelman

David S. Christensen's site. Dr. Christensen writes on many subjects, including earned value. Some important papers include:

• Using Earned Value for Performance Measure on Software Development Projects

• Project Advocacy and the Estimate At Completion Problem

• Does a Rubber Baseline Guarantee Cost Overruns on Defense Acquisition Contracts?

• The Costs and Benefits of the Earned Value Management Process

• Using the Earned Value Cost Management Report to Evaluate the Contractor's Estimate At Completion

• An Analysis of Management Reserve Budget on Defense Acquisition Contracts

• EAC Evaluation Rules: Do They Still Work?

• EAC Evaluation Methods: Do They Still Work?

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Walter Lipke's articles in Crosstalk on EV and related topics

• Project Recovery, It Can Be Done

• Statistical Control of Project Costs

• Software Project Planning, Statistics, and Earned Value

• EVM and Software Project Management: Our Story

• Software Project Planning, Statistics, and Earned Value

• Applying Management Reserve to Software Project Management

• Statistical Process Control Meets Earned Value

Using Earned Value to Manage Successful Software Projects, Paul J. Solomon

ACQ OSD Earned Value Paper site

Mike Tarrani's Project Management site discusses EVMS in the context of overall PM

XP Transition Roadmap, Emmet C. Eckman III, is a paper discussing XP and EVMS!!

Project Management and Resource Constrained Scheduling using an Integer Programming Approach, Hector Sandion, et al,

Simple Progress Reporting, Neil Asworth

Value based Feedback In Software/IT Systems, Barry Boehm

Gaining Confidence Using Return on Investment and Earned Value, Larry Smith and Todd Steadman, Crosstalk April 1999.

Practical Software Measurement, Performance-Based Earned Value, Paul Solomon, Crosstalk, September 2001. This article discusses Performance Based EV as it can be applied to software projects.

Key Terms for Earned Value Technique

Earned Value Management: Project Management with the Lights On

Using CMMI to Improve Earned Value Management, CMU/SEI–2002–TN–016

The Curse of EVMS: Level of Effort, Always Quarantine LOE, Quentin Fleming

True Project Management is Earned Value Cost Management, Jari Välimäki, Project Management 3/95

Tutorial on Earned Value Management Systems, Dennis J. Frailey

The Practical Application of Earned Value Performance Measurement, Paul Harris

Earned Value for the Masses, Quentin Fleming, The Measurable News, Dec 2001

All the Right Behavior, David R. Webb, Crosstalk, September 2002

Going from Performance Based Earned Value to CMMI, Paul Solomon, Crosstalk, September 2002

Single Point Adjustments: A New Definitions with Examples, David C. Bachman

Northrop Grumman's Four-Tier Approach to Earning Value, Tom Petro and Ken Milani, Management Accounting Quarterly

Managing with Earned Value, NAVAIR training presentation on EV basics for IBR teams (ppt)

Earned Value Basics, An Air Force presentation on EV basics

An "In House EVMS" site "Using EVMS in Government Facilities."

Technical Performance Measurement, Earned Value, and Risk Management: An Integrated Diagnostic Tool for Program Management, Commander N. D. Pisano, SC, USN

Technical Performance Measure is a critical aspect of EVMS. The following papers describe this subject.

Technical performance Measure: A Systematic Approach to Planning, Integration, and Assessment (Part 1). Linking TPM to Cost and Schedule (Part 2). Assessment Techniques and EV (Part 3)

TPM Retrospective Implementation and Concept Validation on the T45TS Cockpit-21 Program (zipped Word Doc)

From Performance Based Earned Value (PBEV) to CMMI, Paul Solomon, Northrop Grumman

Earned Value Management: Mitigating Risk Associated with Construction Projects, Quentin Fleming, Program Management, March–April 2002

Earned Value Business Management, Patrick Weaver, 6th Annual Australian Performance Management Symposium.

Managing Projects in the Corporate Environment: Things Every Executive / manager Should Know, Roger Parish, September 18, 2002 (2.1MB pdf)

Power to the Programmer: Using Measurement to Optimize the Software Process at the Individual Level, Gerry Coleman and Rory O'Conner.

Earned Value Tracking, Oddur Benediktsson, University of Iceland

Earned Value Management and Software Development, Susie Meyer and Norm Brown, Mitre Corporation

35 Criteria for Earned Value Management compliance

Earned Value Terminology

Earned Value Management "Fundamentals", Bob Carlson, Defense Acquisition University, 2002.

Project Control, a discussion of EV concepts including level of effort.

Earned Value, Tom Rethard, and overview of EV concepts

Implementing Earned Value on Commercial IT Projects: A Practical Approach, Kym Henderson, Sydney Chapter, PMI, March 2002

Earned Value Management: How to Avoid the 90% Complete Problem, Sergio Gerosa, Alenia Spazio

Why Software Metric Programs Fail, Jim Pederson, Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), provides a guide for defining a SOP which would include EVMS.

A bit off topics, but here is the DOE Project Management handbook as well as the Project Management Practices.

Along this line  is the Environmental Restoration Project Managers Handbook

The Value  of Earned Value, Marilyn McCauley, a nice presentation with simple EVMS examples.

Microsoft Project Best Practices, simple guide for getting the most out of MSFT Project, including the EV parts.

Draft Standard for Project Performance Measurement using Earned Value V5.6

Extreme Programming Modified: Embrace Requirements Engineering Practices, Jerzy Nawrocki, Michał Jasiński, Bartosz Walter, Adam Wojciechowski, Poznań University of Technology, Poland

Managing Software Projects with EVMS, Paul Solomon, Northrop Grumman Corporate, In Control Journal 13th Annual Conference Proceedings, 10(1), April 1997.

Managing Software Project with Earned Value, Paul Solomon, 1999 Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, May 1999. All STSC Proceedings are online.

Sizing Software with Testable Requirements, Peter B. Wilson, Auerbach Publications, 2000

Agile Acquisition and Transformation, Blaise Durant, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.

Australian Performance Management Association

Goddard Space Flight Center Office of the Chief Financial Officer

The Seven Steps to Performance Based Services Acquisition

Testable Requirements has several papers on sizing software projects and recording value using "testable" requirements concepts.

Earned Value (EV) Management Model for Small Software Development Projects, Sandra A. Sanderson, Navy Mission Planning, 2001 Software Technology Conference.

Cost Benefit Analysis of Earned Value Management System Criteria, John R. Cole, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University Research Web, 1997.

The Assessment of Program Manager's Perceptions of Importance of Stability to Overall Project Outcomes, Yigit Ben, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University Research Web, march 2001.

Earned Value Management Maturity Model, Ray W. Stratton and Rick Hefner, STSC 2001 Proceedings.

Earned Value Management for Level of Effort Projects, CDR Gib Kerr, STSC 2001 Proceedings.

Value based Software Engineering, Barry Boehm and Li Guo Huang, IEEE Computer, Mach 2003