Kairos scheduling handbook

Program Controls & Earned Value

Integrate WBS, schedule, budget, progress, forecast, risk, and decision reporting without confusing earned-value metrics with CPM time analysis.

Program-controls managers, executives, cost engineers, schedulers, analysts, and government contractors · Intermediate to advanced · 6-part curriculum

What you will practice

Integrate scope, time, budget, and responsibility
Interpret SPI and related EVM measures correctly
Connect metrics to native schedule evidence
Govern baseline and forecast changes

Module 1

Integrated control structure

Align WBS, control accounts, schedule, cost, and responsibility.

Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Earned value, in plain terms
Assign resources and costs in P6

Module 2

Performance signals

Read SPI and distinguish budget variance from calendar-time delay.

Schedule performance index (SPI)
Monthly schedule update

Module 3

Controlled forecasts

Maintain baseline, change, risk, and evidence lineage.

Schedule change-control playbook
Schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo)
Schedule records and audit-trail handbook

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