Using earned value management (EVM) on your projects is like turning on the lights. It provides project managers with a clear and complete view of project performance. It illuminates where a project is--and should be--at any given time.

EVM is a cost-accounting system for projects. It is a monitoring tool that integrates the planning of time, scope, and cost to ensure that all three constraints are monitored and controlled in concert-- rather than isolation. Running a project without EVM can be like operating a business without a bookkeeper.

This seminar will explain how EVM is used in the reporting and control of projects. It illustrates how EVM integrates time, scope, and cost for performance analysis. Attendees will learn just how easy it is to adapt project plans for use with EVM. They will be provided with detailed rules for EVM adoption. Along with the strengths of EVM, this web seminar will also outline its limitations.

Seminar Outline

• Introduction to EVM

• Brief history of EVM

• Role of EVM

• Reasons for adopting EVM

• Rules of EVM

• Planning in an EVM environment

• Reasons for not adopting EVM

Who Should Attend and Why?
This web seminar is an introduction to effective project controls. Anyone who has been responsible for a project that seemed to be operating "in the dark" should attend.

Everyone responsible for project development, planning, and execution should attend in order to find out if and how EVM can work for them.

*Note: This seminar is taught with the assumption that attendees already possess an understanding of project management methodology.

Global Knowledge Courses

• Earned Value Management

• IT Project Management

• PMP Exam Prep Boot Camp

• Project Management Essentials

Instructor Bio

Brian Egan is the CEO of the Book Box Company and principal of Briny Deep Consulting. He has been involved in strategic management since 1985 as both a project manager and a management consultant.

Brian refers to himself as a "serial entrepreneur". He has started several companies in such diverse fields as:fish farming, furniture design, gift manufacturing, and, most recently, catering. He is the author of three training courses in management science and several white papers.