Assessment Title Earned Value Management Task Description Assignment Overview This assessment item requires you to consider:- • earned value management …you must then undertake earned value reporting...

Assessment Title Earned Value Management Task Description Assignment Overview This assessment item requires you to consider:- • earned value management …you must then undertake earned value reporting for a selected case study. The case studies will be supplied for a range of project domains:- • Engineering and construction domain, • Telecommunications, IT and software development domain, • Financial and business services domain, • Government and welfare domain. The earned value report must meet the minimum requirement outlined in the PMBOK (2013) and conform to the requirements of the progress evaluation techniques (p.108) outlined in Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (2009). Task Your task is to consider the overview above and write earned value and S-curve reports. You will be graded upon how well your earned value and S-curve reports have been completed and reflect information from the case studies. Purpose The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help you to develop skills in the contents and compilation of earned value and S-curve reports. The secondary purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to consider the role of progress evaluation techniques and control within a project life cycle. The assignment will also give you the opportunity to enhance your analysis and written communication skills; particularly in the areas of rigorous structured assignment writing. Structure Your submission must use the supplied template. You should complete all of the required parts of the earned value and S-curve reports in a manner as you deem appropriate. The instruction boxes in the template that state they should be deleted must be deleted. Assessment Due Date Week 4 Friday (02-Dec-2016) 05:00 PM AEST Return Date to Students Vacation Week Monday (05-Dec-2016) Weighting 20% Assessment Criteria Your assignment will be assessed on the extent and quality to which it meets each of the following criteria. • A complete earned value report is supplied? (10%) • A complete S-curve report is supplied? (10%) • The earned value report is an accurate reflection of the case study? (30%) • The S-curve report is an accurate reflection of the case study? (30%) • Appropriate and well structured, concise and clear expression of project management arguments in response to the assessment task? (10%) • Clarity of expression, grammar and spelling? (10%) Referencing Style Harvard (author-date) Submission Online To be submitted as Microsoft Word documents and optionally Microsoft Project and Excel files