Influences of Earned Value Management on Construction Project’s Performance in Yemen

Abstract

Most of projects in developing countries suffer cost overruns, behind the schedule, and bad quality due to improper monitoring and controlling technique. This study investigated the earned value management in Yemen as a monitoring and controlling technique and its relation with the project performance. The both qualitative and quantitative methods were adopted covering unstructured interview and questionnaire. This study conducted both pilot study and pre-test which led to proper instrument used in large-scale survey. Reliability and validity tests applied on the instrument which judged it to be reliable and valid. SPSS IBM 19 analysed the data showing that the Earned value has not understood due to lack of knowledge and wasn’t practiced in the site. Consequently, this led to performance failure. To overcome this issue, the academics and practitioners should study and practice earned value management in Yemen particularly, and in developing countries in general.

Cost Early-Warning Model System of Large-Scale Construction Project

“…On the basis of work breakdown, a set of methods combining progress monitoring and cost management is established; the project schedule, progress, and cost budget are determined according to the project schedule; and the cost budget is allocated to monitor the progress of the project [ 14 ]. Due to the inconsistency between the measurement units of schedule and cost, earned value management method considers converting time scale into monetary scale according to calculation rules and adopting the same index system to measure the performance of project schedule and cost at the same time so as to solve the difficulty that schedule and cost cannot be checked synchronously [ 15 – 17 ]. It is also possible to collect and sort out the data on work progress and cost related to the project at an appropriate time and analyze the next plan of construction implementation and cost management measures according to the results.…”