Your company is committed to using Earned Value and they have been tracking the SPI and CPI on your project of the first 10 weeks of a 20 week project . This is what they have reported to you so far:

SPI CPI

Week 2 1.0 1.0

Week 4 1.0 0.9

Week 6 0.9 0.9

Week 8 0.85 0.9

Week 10 0.83 0.9

_____ True or False: According to these figures, your Actual Costs are running below what you had estimated.

____ Analyzing your SPI numbers you realize that:

a. You are gradually falling behind your planned schedule.

b. You are slowly and steadily getting ahead of your planned schedule.

c. The differences are so small, the schedule is not impacted.

d. Ten weeks into the project is too early to tell if you are behind or ahead of schedule.