Earned Value Management (EVM) is a well-known cost and schedule management technique in government and defense industry projects. Its usage, however, is not as wide spread in the general software industry. In this paper we explore some of the shortcomings in EVM and suggest several improvements in the application of EVM in software development projects. In particular, we analyze the nature of s...

The earned value management (EVM) model is an essential technique for managing and forecasting project features such as scheduling and cost performances indexes. This paper presents a novel fuzzy earned-value model based on Z-number theory incorporating both the impreciseness of real life conditions and a degree of reliability through considering an expert judgment process. The latter factor ha...

As it is common in project management context, Earned value analysis usually integrates time and cost performance within the project scope. It helps the project manager to understand how to deal with project from two points of view. The first is to recognize current performance indexes and the second one is to provide a forecast to the future. However, most of decisions in this regard have take...