
Planners, Schedulers, and EVM/cost professionals are three different industry positions. If you are already using Primavera P6 for planning and scheduling your projects, why not using P6 full capabilities by using its EVM features and allow real-time integrated cost and schedule analysis? However, when a schedule is synchronized with the internal EVM reporting inside the scheduling tool, this provides a dynamic perspective, which allows project teams to perform the intent of project controls to establish valuable predictions & forecasts. When EVM is updated in external software, in most cases the communications between Schedulers and EVM professionals begin to break down. The key benefit of EVM in P6 is that Earned Value updates become dynamic in parallel with the schedule logic. With Primavera Earned Value Management functionality, you can integrate cost and schedule information into a single solution and generate the statistically accurate estimates needed to understand and communicate project performance while there is still time to address and deal with issues. Without an integrated earned-value process, troubled projects can spiral out of control before anyone even recognizes a problem.
