Question

Neural Camcast’s production division is installing two production lines in different countries. The following cumulative actual costs, earned value, and planned value (in $ thousands) have been collected for each project for the first ten weeks. The projects final budgets are $800k for each project.

Project 1			Project 2
Actual	EV	PV	Actual	EV	PV
20	45	45	78	60	35
30	93	95	168	112	80
60	119	130	228	162	120
105	187	210	258	210	158
160	217	230	283	274	230
200	247	248	318	295	295
268	285	268	361	327	335
298	339	328	441	347	365
338	409	378	491	364	395
388	484	458	531	376	423

What observations can you make about the financial conditions and schedules for the projects as they progress from week 1 through week 10. Graphing SPI and CPI could aid in your analysis. Comment on inflection points (passing under/over 1). Please use the separately supplied Excel spreadsheet. See the course page.

^^^ I need to chart the non cumulative values and the cumulative values so I need two charts also ^^^

How much do you expect to spend to complete each project?

Can you make any predictions about whether the projects will finish on time? Think SPI…

Answer 1