Earned Scope Management: Scope Performance Evaluation for Software Projects Considering People and Effort as Resources
Francisco Valdés-Souto · 2019
Three of the significant constraints on projects are scope (size), cost (money) and time (schedule), and while Earned Value Management (EVM) and Earned Schedule (ES) techniques manage the cost and time constraints, they do not explicitly tackle the scope constraint. Even though scope management is recognized as a critical success factor in software projects, there is a lack of formal techniques in the literature to manage scope. This paper presents the results of the improvements to the Earned Scope Management (ESM) technique developed since 2015 and currently tested in Mexico with real projects.