The goal of any project manager is to control the project – be sure it comes in on budget and avoid cost overruns. We need to see the potential for overruns, concern ourselves with risk management, and deal with the likelihood of failure before it occurs or before we run out of budget

xpdOffice is designed to make this a reality, so that you are able to control and maintain your projects before they get out of hand. To do this, you need more than just good luck and simple diligence. You need earned value management principles and practices. xpdOffice will give you earned value management. Consider the following EVM benefits that xpdOffice automatically offer

• xpdOffice is a single management control package that always provides reliable and accurate data
• xpdOffice provides a work breakdown structure by integrating schedule, work and cost
• Historical data about completed projects is always available at any time in xpdOffice
• By using the cost performance index and the schedule performance index, xpdOffice makes prediction of the project’s final cost easy
• Through in-depth earned value management reporting, xpdOffice allows for evaluation of a forecasted final cost of any project
• Even though xpdOffice is information rich, the system allows for the management by exception principle to reduce information overload
• xpdOffice allows organizations to determine early on whether the necessary staff has been added to a project
• xpdOffice makes it easy to determine whether funding cuts will actually effect cash flow or if price and usage are responsible for cost variances
• xpdOffice integrates with scheduling software
• xpdOffice supports multiple performance measurement techniques, which makes for easy and objective measurements of performance
• Earned and actual hours are stored in xpdOffice allowing price and usage variances to be calculated.