Abstract
The necessity of project management by EVM has been acknowledged for recent years in Japan. "Reexamination of government procurement system regarding information system", which was presented in the liaison conference of the ministry of government procurement office concerning information system, emphasized the consideration of applying EVM. And moreover, EVM application guideline was published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Information-technology Promotion Agency last year. There are not so many EVM application cases in Japan now. Therefore, consideration points of applying EVM has been researched using real projects data. As one of those real cases, in which EVM was practically applied in the several projects in the company, essential requirements for applying EVM successfully are examined in this paper.
