5. Our advice

5.1 Raising awareness among all project stakeholders

The earned value method is an interesting way of monitoring a project. It provides an overview of the project's progress. However, it can't be improvised. It is therefore essential, before launching any major maneuvers and implementing indicators that could be misused, to train not only the people who will be in charge of implementation, but also the entire project team and decision-makers, so that the results produced by the method are correctly interpreted.