Netlogo Earned Value Management Model (1.0.0)

The model aims to illustrate how Earned Value Management (EVM) provides an approach to measure a project’s performance by comparing its actual progress against the planned one, allowing it to evaluate trends to formulate forecasts. The instance performs a project execution and calculates the EVM performance indexes according to a Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), which integrates the description of the work to do (scope), the deadlines for its execution (schedule), and the calculation of its costs and the resources required for its implementation (cost).

Specifically, we are addressing the following questions: How does the risk of execution delay or advance impact cost and schedule performance? How do the players’ number or individual work capacity impact cost and schedule estimations to finish? Regardless of why workers cause delays or produce overruns in their assignments, does EVM assess delivery performance and help make objective decisions?

To consider our model realistic enough for its purpose, we use the following patterns: The model addresses classic problems of Project Management (PM). It plays the typical task board where workers are assigned to complete a task backlog in project performance. Workers could delay or advance in the task execution, and we calculate the performance using the PMI-recommended Earned Value.

Release Notes

Release Netlogo Earned Value Management Model v1.0.0 introduces a task board and Earned Value Management metrics to assess employee agent performance.

Associated Publications

Castañón-Puga, M.; Rosales-Cisneros, R.F.; Acosta-Prado, J.C.; Tirado-Ramos, A.; Khatchikian, C.; Aburto-Camacllanqui, E. Earned Value Management Agent-Based Simulation Model. Systems 2023, 11, 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11020086