This book is intended for anyone who desires to know more about project management planning and control and how to improve these processes through the use of Earned Value. Intended readers include project and program managers, schedulers, project control personnel, project technical personnel, and procurement personnel as well as stakeholders and owners of projects. While it is intended for a wide range of readers, each is assumed to have a basic familiarity with the requirements and the disciplines of project management. Readers new to this arena would be well advised to supplement this reading with a basic but general work on project management.