You are a Cost Manager with responsibilility over a set of software development projects. The project effort
Question:
You are a Cost Manager with responsibilility over a set of software development projects. The project effort was planned by the software group, and the total estimated cost generated based on labor rate. There are no assumptions of additional costs to apply (e.g. licenses, supplies, etc.). You receive the status note from the developer outlining project progress, as well as the financial 'actuals' report from the Fianncial mgmt system. You need to generate earned value elements and determine if the project is on budget/schedule.Fill in the Plan/Schedule Status matrix with appropriate values. Generate your Earned Value Report to present to management. Also, answer the following 3 questions:
1) What is the projected ETC? What assumptions did you make, and method did you use, to determine?
2) What is the new EAC?
3) Does this status report warrant a re-plan of the schedule and budget?
Status Report, Submitted June 18
The project is going well, I am pretty much on track, with just a few minor snags along the way. I completed Initial Rqmts Analysis (1.1) on schedule, but was 3 days late starting Allocation (1.2) due to an emergency maintenance task required on production code. I still completed allocation on schedule, however. My Conceptual Design (1.3) was complete early, but because of the dependency on other staff for the design review (1.4), I wasn't able to start Development early (1.5) early. I had to work a few weekends to have the code ready for code review (1.6) starting June 14th. As of today, I still have not received back all review forms that are due, although I don't anticipate any issues. I will begin Int and Test first thing Monday morning.
Managerial Accounting A Focus on Ethical Decision Making
ISBN: 978-0324663853
5th edition
Authors: Steve Jackson, Roby Sawyers, Greg Jenkins