Learn how to display "earned value" financial and schedule information for the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy contracts with the system that the government called a "best practice in the industry", making your government client sing your company's praises, your praises and the praises of PHP!

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

2. 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 $

3. Bell Helicopter Goodies to Give Away
This is our shameless attempt to get you to
give us good evaluations :)
Speaking of evaluations, please be sure to
fill out the evaluation card and turn it in at the
back.

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

5. What Was The Need?
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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)
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Easy to use
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Provide users all they need to manage their work, all
in one place (one-stop-shop)
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Provide for the needs of Executives down to
Engineers
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Allow Government access into the data as
appropriate to help them manage the investment that
the US Government makes in our products

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

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

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

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

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

11. Premier Demo
• Detailed demo of the Premier Website

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

13. 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