| Myth #1: |
An EVMS is a software program. |
| Fact: |
Specialized software (called an EVM Engine) comprises no more than 30% of a fully implemented Earned Value Management System. Actually, a Standard-conformant Earned Value Management System (EVMS) is an integration of nine management processes that provides you and your customer a traceable way to manage, communicate and predict accomplishment in your projects and programs. |
| EVMSolution: |
EVMServices offers a portal-based array of applications (including EVM Engines) plus consulting and educational services that accumulatively assist and guide your organization’s design, implementation and long-term performance of your EVMS. |
| Myth #2: |
Setting up an EVMS is time-consuming and expensive. |
| Fact: |
Historical data indicates that this has often been so. But . . . |
| EVMSolution: |
EVMServices offers an innovative portal-based answer that drastically reduces the time and costs of designing and implementing your EVMS. |
| Myth #3: |
EVMS requirements are one-size-fits-all and only make sense in large, complex projects. |
| Fact: |
The EVMS Standard says that EVMS design should be scalable and conformable to an organization’s normal business practices. But it also says that an organization’s EVMS design must be fully accountable to each of the Standard’s 32 Guidelines. |
| EVMSolution: |
EVMServices offers a patented means for your organization to scale the design and implementation of your custom EVMS while simultaneously providing evidence of your organization’s adaptation and ongoing dynamic use of 170 performance-based EVMS characteristics. |