Measuring Project Performance & Earned Value Management

Stay competitive. Help keep your company's bottomline to realistic cost controls. Time is money. For project managers, program managers, portfolio managers, business development managers.

This class is for Project Managers who have been doing EVM or have their PMP® and are wanting to earn training hours in project management for PDUs.

Instructions: Plan on registering for class 7 to 14 days in advance before the first class begins to make sure you have a seat on the dates you want. Register by clicking the "add to cart" button above. Payment will be required at the same time. You may use either a credit card or debit card. Payment will be required at the same time. Other ways to register and Pay by Cash, Cashier's Check, Employer Check, or Voucher. The latest pre-registration is required by 5:00 PM the day before the first day of class begins unless the class is marked "filled." There are only a maximum of 11 seats available so if you must have a certain date it is suggested you may consider scheduling this class 2-4 weeks in advance.

Date & Time: See the arrow down menu above for all selections.

Location - Bellevue/Redmond: SmartPath LLC, 2018 156th Ave NE, Suite 100, Bellevue WA 98007.

You will receive

one hour break for lunch

class handouts

certificate of completion for 3.5 hours of training

3.5 PDUs if you are hold a PMP® Credential

Your hours of training are accumulative towards 35 contact hours of formal education required by the PMI® organization to receive approval for the PMP® Exam.

Earned Value Management Training Class Description: The most talked about topic among program managers, portfolio directors and business directors for measuring performance of a project is Earned Value. Yet it is most misunderstood by them. Earned Value Management is the process of measuring the cost & schedule performance of a project work against the project plan to identify variances. It can also be useful in predicting future variances in cost and schedule of a project. It is used for determining the final costs at completion of a project.

Students should be familiar with project management terminologies and have some experience with project management before taking this class.

What you will learn:

What, when and how to measure cost and schedule to calculate the project performance. You will learn to identify variances between the projects and manage the portfolio budget at ease and report project and portfolio performance with a smile and healthy attitude. You will know how to calculate the cost and schedule values, estimates at completion and performance indexes.

Here are the topics at a glance.

Cost Variance

Cost Performance Index

Earned Value

Estimate at Completion

Estimate to Complete

Schedule Performance Index

Schedule Variance

Variance

Variance at Completion

TCPI

Learning Objectives

• Understand the meaning of Earned Value management (EVM)

• Comprehend the use of EVM

• Be able to differentiate variances and indexes

• Understand the “Budget At Completion”

• Know the meaning of ‘Earned Value”

• Comprehend Project performance report

• Understand the meaning of “Estimate To Complete”

• Understand the use of EVM in forecasting

• Comprehend the use of EVM in risk management


What You Will Receive

3.5 hours certificate of completion

Your hours of training are accumulative towards 35 contact hours of formal education required by the PMI® organization to receive approval for the PMP® Exam

3.5 PDUs if you hold a PMP® credential

Class handouts

Free small snacks, coffee, tea

Free and easy parking.



Directions to SmartPath LLC, 2018 156Th Ave NE, Suite 100, Bellevue WA 98007.

Coming from the West

Take 520E towards Redmond

Take Exit 148th Ave South

Turn left onto NE 20th St (also become Northup)

Left on 156th AVE NE

Turn right into first driveway

Go straight up the hill and follow the signs to 2018. It’s the Regus building on the left. There is lots of free parking to the right and in front of the building.

Project Earned Value Management - Know it at any instance.