Tree Trimming Project Management Case Study Research
Read through the Tree Trimming Project case in chapter 13 of the textbook. This case refers to the earned value (EV) of the owner, Will Fence’s Tree Trimming business. Will briefly describes his techniques for EV. Based on the description provided in the case, is Will using EV?
Answer the corresponding question provided at the end of the case (300-500 words). Use references from the reading materials to support your response.
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Tree Trimming Project
Wil Fence is a large timber and Christmas tree farmer who is attending a project management class in the spring, his off season. When the class topic came to earned value, he was perplexed. Isn’t he using EV?
Each summer Wil hires crews to shear fields of Christmas trees for the coming Holiday season. Shearing entails having a worker use a large machete to shear the branches of the tree into a nice, cone-shaped tree.
Wil describes his business as follows:
A. I count the number of Douglas Fir Christmas trees in the field (24,000).
B. Next, I agree on a contract lump sum for shearing with a crew boss for the whole field ($30,000).
C. When partial payment for work completed arrives (5 days later), I count or estimate the actual number sheared (6,000 trees). I take the actual as a percent of the total to be sheared, multiply the percent complete by total contract amount for the partial payment [(6,000/$30,000 = 25%), (.25 × $30,000 = $7500)].
1. Is Wil over, on, or below cost and schedule? Is Wil using earned value?
2. How can Wil set up a scheduling variance?
Resources:
Chapter 13 of Project Management: The Managerial Process. Larson, E. W., & Gray, C. F. (2018). Project management: The managerial process (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. ISBN-13: 9781259924484
Batti, R. C. (2015). Development Project Management Within Local NGOs: 10 Recommendations to Meet 10 Challenges. Global Business & Organizational Excellence, 34(5), 21–29.
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Tree Trimming Project
Q1. Is Wil over, on, or below cost and schedule?
The total number of trees expected to have been sheared by the crew in five days is 6000, representing 25% of the total number of Fir Christmas trees present in the field; (6000 / 24000) * 100 = 25%. So, Wil Fence is required to give a partial payment of 25% of the actual payment for 25% of the work that has been done in 5 days since there is no information provided regarding the duration that the shearing of Christmas trees would take (Larson & Gray, 2018). An assumption is made that 25% of the work that has been completed by the hired crew is what the crew boss and the tree farmer had agreed upon. This means that Wil Fence is on schedule.
Based on the description provided in the case, is Wil using earned value (EV)?
Earned value is a technique used to measure and determine the performance of a project. This approach compares the results and the work planned to determine the method for measuring project performance. To determine whether scheduled performance and costs are as planned.
Wil is using Earned Value (EV). Based on the collected data, it is evident that Wil Fence has completed 25% of the total work to be done in 5 days; thus, he should have $7,500, which is 25% of the total payable amount.
Q2. How can Wil set up a scheduling variance?
Schedule Variance is an indicator of the costs behind or ahead of a particular project. It provides the varia...
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