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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.

Module 2

Performance signals

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

Module 3

Controlled forecasts

Maintain baseline, change, risk, and evidence lineage.

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