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Earned Value Management

Turn earned value data into decisions.

Earned value tells you whether progress is being earned at the rate you planned. Controls Star computes the metrics from the data you upload and puts them in context — so they lead to a decision, not another spreadsheet.

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Controls Star · Earned Value Metrics
PV
Planned Value
The value of work scheduled to date.
EV
Earned Value
The value of work actually completed.
AC
Actual Cost
What has been spent to earn it.
CPI
Cost Performance Index
Cost efficiency — value earned per unit spent.
SPI
Schedule Performance Index
Progress against the planned work.
EAC
Estimate at Completion
Forecast total cost on current performance.
ETC
Estimate to Complete
Cost still to come from the data date.
VAC
Variance at Completion
How far the finish is forecast from budget.
Metrics computed from your uploaded cost and progress data.
What EVM answers

Five questions, one method.

  • · Are we earning progress at the rate we planned?
  • · Are we spending more than the value of the work completed?
  • · Is schedule performance deteriorating?
  • · What is the likely cost at completion?
  • · Where is performance beginning to slip?
Over time

How planned, earned and spent diverge.

The same curve appears across Controls Star — here it answers the EVM question specifically: is spend outrunning the value earned, and is earned progress falling behind plan? The widening gap is the early-warning signal.

EVM software deep dive
Controls Star · EVM Curves
data date
Planned ValueEarned ValueActual Cost
From metric to action

A CPI of 0.9 is a number. What you do about it is the point.

Controls Star surrounds each metric with cost, schedule, productivity and discipline context, and generates an executive summary, key findings and recommended focus — so the team spends less time assembling the story and more time deciding what to do about it.

Industrial power plant illuminated at night during construction and commissioning

On power and industrial programs, an early read on the final number is worth the analysis.

Related capabilities
Project Performance

Understand the condition and trajectory of a single project without stitching reports together.

Cost Performance

Spot cost deterioration early enough to protect the forecast.

Discipline Level Breakdowns

Find the trade behind the variance so teams focus corrective action where it matters.

See EVM and the context around it — in one session.

Explore the sample project, then upload your own cost and progress data to compute CPI, SPI and EAC automatically.

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