Rethinking Earned Value & Schedule Management on Construction Projects

Selected as a Best Earned Value Book of 2023 this is an essential groundbreaking book for public and private buyers of construction contractors and sub-contractors designers project managers lawyers Earned Value specialists forensic claims analysts schedulers dispute resolution experts academics and anyone interested in improving performance and productivity on construction projects.<br /> <br />Among the topics discussed are the following: <br /><br />- Exhaustive critique of existing Earned Value analysis that compels changes to current theory and practice<br />- New Earned Value analytics for construction integrated with resource-loaded CPM schedules represent a paradigm change<br />- Worked examples of resource-loaded CPM schedules using the new EV Performance analytics<br />- Identification of reliable performance thresholds for progress productivity and resources<br />- Understanding the interconnection of progress and productivity and performance patterns over time<br />- How to create meaningful resource-loaded CPM schedules<br />- Analyzing schedule float in concert with the new analytics<br />- Why current cause and effect delay analysis is fundamentally flawed because it ignores root causes <br />- Why delay claim analysis must always account for productivity<br />- The problem common to all contract delivery methods and how to correct it<br />- Why construction projects fail <br />- Specific steps in creating a successful construction program<br />- Game theoretical & other approaches to implementing a performance-based system<br />- Using commercial dispute resolution to contemporaneously resolve claims and improve performance going forward<br />- The importance of probabilistic (Monte Carlo) schedule analysis & problems with current practice