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I have had the opportunity help implement EVM in small firms, and small projects in large firms. One common experience is the over-complication of EVM in these situations. It is particularly common in implementations that need to meet ANSI 748 requirements. Simple does not mean you can't meet ANSI 748. It may mean you can meet it - simply.

ANSI 748, and the original C/SCSC (Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria), were written to address the application of EVM to large projects (ships, aircraft, weapon systems) built by large corporations (Lockheed, Grumman, North American Aviation, Ling-Temco-Vought, etc.).

These companies had established departments (hardware engineering, software engineering, manufacturing, systems engineering, etc.) to create a career path for staff and refine discipline specific processes. Mapping these departments and staff to their projects required a complex matrix managed structure, and later integrated product/project teams.

Out of this came the project specific OBS (not the corporate organizational chart) and WBS. From this ANSI 748 created control accounts at the intersection of the WBS and OBS so that it was possible, and required, to sum EVM data and variances through both structures. This, in turn, often created a complex, multidimensional cost coding structure to map both the OBS and WBS codes into the charge codes.

Today firms with as few as 30 people are sometimes required to do ANSI 748 EVM. It's important to understand how this environment is different from the one in place when C/SCSC and subsequently ANSI 748 were created. (ANSI 748 is virtually the same as C/SCSC in the 32 guidelines carried forward.)

In most cases these firms do not contain departments, they contain projects. They are not matrix managed, but projectized instead. Project teams are typically formed around the deliverables or subassemblies. Once the deliverables are delivered the project "department" is dissolved. (Find a new job.)

A good WBS should be built upon the deliverables and their components. In an small firm the project teams often end up built around the same deliverables and components. Thus the WBS and OBS become identical except one names the deliverable or component, and the other lists the team leader/manager.

The result is that the ANSI 748 requirements to sum data through both is satisfied by summing it through either! In essence we have reduced the complexity of reporting EVM and variances by half.

ANSI 748 2.3b says

So can a projectized organization meet ANSI 748 requirements to sum through the OBS and WBS? Yes. One gets the same sums because both structures are identical. If challenged just show how the data is summed using the WBS. Then show how the data is summed through the OBS. Then show that both structures are identical.

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