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The Earned Value Criteria: A Layperson’s Interpretation

A Project Management Article by Carl Pritchard, PMP, PMI-RMP, EVP

To those of you who made it this far into this article, kudos!  For many, as soon as they saw the words “earned value” in the title, they begged off.  No one wants to have the earned value conversation, particularly those folks who are not actively doing earned value.  But they could and they should.  Why?  They should give serious consideration to the earned value criteria because they’re criteria that actually lead to effective mechanical application of project management and its tools and structures.