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title: Earned Value Management in Construction Estimating
tags:
  - type/cross-topic
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# Earned Value Management in Construction Estimating

Cross topic of [[earned-value-management]] and [[construction-estimating]].

The construction industry was an early adopter of EVM[^1]

[^1]: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_value_management)

I am not a fan of EVM as it is commonly used in construction
since its spurious claims of objectivity
are accepted without qualification.
Estimating is systematically absolved of error,
which is blamed on operations
(estimate accuracy is not incentivized).

[[purpose-of-construction-estimating#The Myth of Estimate Accuracy]]
