You are the Project Manager for an installation project that is planned to take one year (12 months). You and your team plan to install 1200 new Personal Computers (PCs) in locations across Canada. Planned cost is $240,000 CAD; work is prorated over the project duration.

At the end of the first quarter (3 months), your project team has installed 525 PCs and the actual costs are $96,000 CAD.

The Project Sponsor has called you into a meeting with the customer and Executive Management team to report on the performance of your project. You decide you will use Earned Value techniques to support your presentation.

Calculate:

	Formula used	Value
Cost Variance (CV)
Cost Performance Index (CPI)
Schedule Variance (SV)
Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
Cost Schedule Index (CSI)
Estimate TO Complete (ETC)
Estimate AT Completion (EAC)
Budget at Completion (BAC)
Variance at Completion (VAC)

1. What would you report to the Customer and Executive team regarding your project performance?

1. What assumptions have you made?

The assignment is worth a total of 10 marks divided as follows:

• Earned Value calculations (6 marks)
• Performance report to customer and executive (2 marks)
• Assumptions made (2 marks)

Assignment 4 is due before starting module 10.