Question: Objective: This assignment is intended to help you practice earned value management techniques and analysis with a view of developing this skill. It is an
Objective:
This assignment is intended to help you practice earned value management techniques and analysis with
a view of developing this skill. It is an individual assignment.
Description
A certain activity was planned to be completed in 10 weeks, with a budget of $300,000, phased over the
10 weeks ($30,000 per week), with 20% of the work to be completed each week. At the end of the first
week, the activity was 18% completed. The following is additional information related to this activity:
Planned value (PV): $30,000 (each week)
Actual cost (AC): $25,000 (at the end of the first week)
Budget at Completion (BAC) $300,000 (for the whole activity)
Original (approved) Time Estimate(OTE): 10 weeks (for the whole activity)
Required--Compute and answer the following (show all your calculations):
a) Earned value (EV):
b) i) Cost variance (CV):
ii) Schedule variance (SV):
iii) Cost performance index (CPI):
iv) Schedule performance index (SPI):
c) Estimate at completion (EAC):
d) Estimate to complete (ETC)
e) Estimated time to complete (ETTC):
f) How is the project progressing (be specific, indicating the underlined keyword):
i) Is it ahead of schedule or behind schedule? Why do you think so?
ii) Is it under budget or over budget? Why do you think so?
Notes:
You must show all your work that supports the answer
identify the answer for each question with its letter code (eg. (a) or( ii)).
The assignment must be submitted by uploading it to Blackboard through the link
Submitting Homework to the Assignment No 3 folder.
Upload a Word or PDF format of your solution to Blackboard by midnight Thursday April 22th,
2021.
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