Earned Value Analysis for Project Management using Microsoft Project: …...A Early Warning Tool

by Amruta Patil, ARIHANT ADAKE

The infrastructure sector plays an important role in the growth and development of every nation’s Economy. So, managing these kinds of large technical projects is a challenge to professional engineers. In spite of all the challenges it is very crucial to improve performance of a project with respect to time and schedule. Here comes the need of EVA which is a management tool and helps to resolve the problems and complete the project efficiently. Earned value analysis is an early warning project management tool that will help managers to identify and control problems before they become unconquerable. Successful project managers demand EVA so that their project meets the technical objectives of the project as well as it is completed on schedule. EVA is an important tool in analysing the performance of any construction projects. It measures the project progress and helps in identifying the critical activities thereby bringing the activities on schedule. EVA analysis can be carried out manually but software implementation is preferred for complex and mega constructions. MSP software can be used for effective project management for carrying out EVA analysis.

60 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2020

About the author

Amruta Patil, is an Indian graphic novel author and painter.

Patil spent her childhood in Goa. She has a BFA from Goa College of Art (1999), and Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2004).

She worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 1999-2000. She was the Co-founder, Editor of the quarterly magazine, 'Mindfields' (2007-2012). She was awarded TED Fellowship in 2009.

Her debut graphic novel, Kari, commissioned and published by VK Karthika at HarperCollins India, explored themes of sexuality, friendship and death; and heralded Patil as India's first female graphic novelist.

She was awarded the Ministry of Women and Child Development's Nari Shakti Puraskar in March 2017 at the hands of the 13th President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.