Advantager is a project management tool that helps the decision making processes by providing a set of features such as: performance information, forecasts, schedule and costs metrics, etc.
This project management tool was meant to provide a set of workflows that encourages its users to follow PMBOK good practices. Presenting small additions such as providing a field for uploading the file that officially states the project beginning, to default roles based on PMBOK concepts, among others PMBOK related features.
Advantager helps the decision making processes by providing tools and performance measuring metrics such as EVM. EVM enables you to integrate the project scope, time, and costs, while generating progress and status metrics, and forecasts of progress towards a completion date.
Advantager was designed in such a way to provide all the EVM features without requiring any new input or workflow from the user. So from an user based perspective the tool usage is just like most project management tools. In summary Advantager brings EVM features without requiring any extra effort.
EVM indicators allows you to determine if the project is over or under the budget, the costs performance and also estimates the remaining and final project budget. In the other hand the Earned Schedule is an EVM extension with better time-related indicators and forecasts. Earned Schedule main advantages are:
- It provides the project estimated duration.
- Forecasts regarding the project duration.
- Project time/schedule performance metrics.
- Early warnings regarding possible problematic tasks.
- Etc.
While performing analysis of the project performance the user is also able to review exactly what changes other users made to cause any specific situation.
If a user wants to have a deeper knowledge of the EVM indicators and forecasts, or if they just want to learn about the section layout they can access the Help in the EVM section, where useful information regarding EVM concepts is presented as a guided tour:
