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Evaluating Federal Information Technology Program Success Based On Earned Value Management, Mae Moy
Evaluating Federal Information Technology Program Success Based On Earned Value Management, Mae Moy
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Despite the use of earned value management (EVM) techniques to track development progress, federal information (IT) software programs continue to fail by not meeting identified business requirements. The purpose of this logistic regression study was to examine, using IT software data from federal agencies from 2011 to 2014, whether a relationship between schedule variance (SV), cost variance (CV), and actual cost (AC) could predict the success of IT software program, as operationalized by meeting the identified business requirements. The population of interest was 132 IT software programs developed between 2011 and 2014 for federal agencies. The sample source was an …