Earned Value has been used since the 1960’s by the Department of Defense as a central part of the C/SCSC (Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria). Recently, the DOD revised the 35 criteria contained in the C/SCSC and produced the 32 criteria for EVMS (Earned Value Management Systems).

These criteria have since been accepted by the American National Standards Institute/Electronic Industry Association as a new standard, called ANSI/EIA 748. Now, EVM is being used in a wider variety of government contracts, and is spreading through the private sector as a valuable tool for project managers.

Additional Earned Value information

All Schedules on this web site were created using Milestones software. This includes Milestones Professional, which is a powerful, fast, and easy to use project scheduler, and Milestones Simplicity, a basic program for creating Gantt charts. These programs can both be used to present schedules. They are both great examples of project planning software.