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Not Your Father's Earned Value
Ray Stratton (February 24, 2005)

Sure, for 30-some years earned value management has helped project managers estimate the final cost of their projects. But that's not all it can do. Here's a novel approach to using earned value to obtain schedule information as a means to predict your project's completion date.

For more than 30 years earned value management has been providing valuable insight into project cost and schedule status during project execution.

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