Creating an Earned Value System for the Department of Defense

Creating an Earned Value Reporting System with PHP Tim West Scott Hathaway Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

About Us  More than 28 years of combined industry experience  Created intuitive, easy to use delivery methods (including dashboards, spreadsheets, reports, and graphs) for many companies and universities, highlighting many different kinds of information, including cost and schedule information  Supported thousands of users  Earned a living with PHP for 10 years plus  Automated many tasks and reports, saving millions of $

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What is Earned Value Management?  Have a Plan – What did I say I was going to do?  Execute Your Plan – What did I actually get done?  Cost – How much did I spend to do what I did?  Used by Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, NASA, and others to manage government contracts

What Was The Need?  Application that would show data from many data sources all in one place (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Mainframe, SAP, Excel, Text files, MS Access databases, etc)  Easy to use  Provide users all they need to manage their work, all in one place (one-stop-shop)  Provide for the needs of Executives down to Engineers  Allow Government access into the data as appropriate to help them manage the investment that the US Government makes in our products

Need (continued)  Have reports that show data at all levels from various sources that run reasonably quickly  Show important and relevant information in a dashboard that is meaningful and sexy

Why PHP?  No cost to get going  In house expertise existed (no need to involve IT)  Fast development time (up and running in 6 weeks)  Minimal staff required  Highly scalable  Less resources needed than IT's current solution (Java)

Challenges with using PHP  Open source not widely accepted in the defense industry ✔ Legal issues of Intellectual Property ✔ No company supporting it ✔ Fear factor ✔ Not invented here syndrome  IT Roadblocks ✔ Lack of cooperation ✔ Lack of access to data

Why IT Does Not Like Our Application This does not help them take over the world

Where Are We Now?  Named our application Premier  Up and running for almost 2 years now with no downtime  1,500 plus users with 4 million hits per month (average of about 133 hits per user per day)  Received Textron's Finance Best Practice Award from the Textron CFO  At Aviation Week's Schedule Risk Conference, Premier was voted the best application for tracking schedule risks  Soon will expand to all of Textron

Premier Demo • Detailed demo of the Premier Website

Questions? Contact Information: tjwest@bellhelicopter.textron.com slhathaway@bellhelicopter.textron.com Give Aways

We’re Hiring PHP Developers Qualifications: - PHP 5.x - SQL (MySQL and Oracle knowledge preferred) - HTML - Javascript - Ability to work on a team Send Resumes to: slhathaway@bellhelicopter.textron.com

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