The schedule variance will be negative, which means the project will be falling behind the schedule, due to a variety of reasons as already mentioned above. One of the major reasons that could affect the schedule variance negatively would be poor planned value as the schedule variance is depended on it. This is because if each phase of a project is not well planned taking into consideration the employers’ availability on a particular project or lack of communication among the members of the project group or not keeping sufficient time frame for instances such as bad weather etc., the delays involved in delivery of the required material, unexpected failures in any particular phase of the project which may result due to uncontrollable circumstances.