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PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESOURCE LIST #55

Updated Sept. 2017

Provided by the NASA Headquarters Library

The first version of earned value management (or EVM) was developed during the Sixties by the Pentagon to measure how its projects were progressing. Since 2005, EVM has been a part of general federal project risk management practice. Using EVM, a project manager can answer these questions:

  • How much is it really costing us to earn each unit of forecast value?
  • How much is going to cost by the finish?
  • When is it going to finish?
  • Where are we now?
  • Where are our problem areas?
  • How does this compare with other projects?

(Checklist adapted from the Earned Value Factsheet of the Association for Project Management)

You may also find items of interest at our webpages on Program Management, Project Budgeting and Cost Control, Project Management Introductory Texts, and Managerial Core Competence.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: Call x0168 or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public: Contact your local library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.

BOOKS 24X7

  • Lingguang, Song. Earned Value Management: A Global and Cross-Industry Perspective on Current EVM Practice. 2010. SATERN
  • Fleming, Quentin W. Earned Value Project Management, 4TH ed. 2010. SATERN
  • Budd, Charles I. A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project Management, 2nd ed. 2010. SATERN
  • Project Management Institute, Practice Standard for Earned Value Management. 2005. SATERN

HQ LIBRARY CATALOG

  • Kwak, Young-Hoon. Project Management in Government: an Introduction to Earned Value Management (EVM). 2010. HD69 .P75 K835 2010

NASA TECHNICAL REPORTS

  • NASA. Earned Value Management Implementation Handbook. 2013. NTRS 20130013702
  • Odem, Mary. Implementing EVM on a Government Project The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. 2010. NTRS 20100040583
  • Sorge, Les L. Implementing Earned Value Management in the CxP EVA Systems Project Office. 2009. NTRS 20090041865

NASA INTERNET RESOURCES

NODIS (NASA ONLINE DIRECTIVES INFORMATION SYSTEM) NPD AND NPR:

NASA Engineering and Program Management Policy
Policy Info: NPD 7120.4D

NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Requirements
Policy Info: NPR 7120.5E