Design and development of a support tool for Earned Value Analysis of a turnkey Agile project: Amarìs use case

In this thesis work Project Management for IT projects is analyzed and revisited. Amarìs Torino, the consulting firm in which the studio was developed, is a pioneer of a new way of working for consultancy: the delivery of turnkey projects. This type of contract gives space to new dynamics between contractor and customer and must adapt well to every approach to work. The relatively new Agile development team is settling in and the PM needs to reconcile the discipline of Project Management, rigorous monitoring practices, with the flexibility of Agile implementation. A support tool has been created for the Project Manager to facilitate Earned Value Analysis as a method for monitoring the work of the various teams coordinated by him. The tool was tailored and tested during a project. In taking charge of the project, a hybrid approach between Agile and Waterfall methods was suggested. Furthermore, the minimum documentation standards to be drawn up have been imposed, in order to have the most accurate planning as possible. This also allowed performance analysis to have added value for future projects. The results were discussed time after time, during each monitoring date, thanks to the support tool created, and this allowed the PM and the team to achieve excellent delivery results.