This is a two-day course designed to prepare candidates for AACE’s
Earned Value Professional (EVP) certification exam. Professionals
attending the EVP certification review course should be fairly
knowledgeable and have some project/program experience.
AACE International's newest certification program is designed to
recognize the Earned Value Management Professional. The EVP
certification program offers specialty credentials for the
professional
who wants to validate his/her skills and be designated as an EVP.
Many professionals practice earned value management principles
during the project life-cycle. Until now, there has been no
certification effectively measuring the Earned Value Professional’s
capabilities - except through real-life performance. AACE's EVP
certification provides an exam and experience validation that
lets industry and users identify those who are competent
professionals within the EVM discipline.
Attendees who are interested in sitting for the EVP Certification
exam on Saturday, June 28th may do so as a separate event. They must
complete and submit the appropriate application and fees,
demonstrating their eligibility.
Attendees should bring a calculator. Attendees should come prepared
to work planning and scheduling exercises in a workshop format.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Who Would Benefit by Attending? This course is intended for anyone in the
field of project management, project engineering, cost engineering,
planning, scheduling, finance, estimating or any other project
related work who is preparing to take the EVP certification.
Learning Objectives:
- Prepare candidates for the AACE Earned Value Professional (EVP) certification exam.
- Increase understanding of development and integration of the project scope, schedule, and cost
- Understand the ANSI/EIA-748 principles (Intent guide for EVMS principles)
- Apply EVMS concepts and principles to several project related problems, issues, and case studies
Course Outline:
| Times |
Agenda / Instruction Material Covered |
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| Day 1 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:30 AM |
Introductions EVP Certification Test Criteria and Test Format |
| 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM |
Introduction to Earned Value Management |
| 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM |
Earned Value Principles and Practices |
| 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM |
Break |
| 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Overview of ANSI/EIA-748, Principles and Standards for Earned Value
Management Systems |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
EVMS Preplanning and Baseline Development
- Terminology and definitions
- Statement of Work
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
- Problem Session 1 (Q&A samples & discussion)
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| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM |
Lunch Break |
| 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM |
EVMS Preplanning and Baseline Development (continued)
- Schedule Development
- Estimating
- Time-phased Budget
- Resource Planning
- Determination of Earned Value Technique
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM |
Break |
| 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM |
Problem Session 2 - Case Study dealing with Project Preplanning &
Baseline Development |
| 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM |
Break |
| 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM |
Risk and Contingency Impacts |
| 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM |
Summary and Wrap-up |
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| Day 2 |
|
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| 08:00 AM - 08:30 AM |
Review of Day 1 |
| 08:30 AM - 09:15 AM |
Performance Metrics and Calculations
- Metrics
- Performance Management Indices
- Change Management
- Forecasting Completion
|
| 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM |
Break |
| 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
Problem Session 3 – Simple Performance Metrics and Calculations
- Sample Q&A
- Problem Solving examples
- Sample Case Study
|
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Performance Reporting and Analysis Techniques
- Interpretation of graphical data
- Interpretation of Cost Performance Report and other similar reports and data
|
| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM |
Lunch Break |
| 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM |
Problem Session 4 - Project Analysis Exercises |
| 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM |
Break |
| 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM |
Problem Session 5 - Sample Case Studies and follow-up discussions |
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM |
Break |
| 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM |
Review and Preparing for the Test |
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About the Instructors:
Kathlene M. Bell EVP is a Certified Earned Value Professional (EVP) with a
BSBA from the University of Central Florida. She has been in the
Program/Project Management field for over 22 years. Currently, she is working
for the Washington Savannah River Company (WSRC) as a Principle Program
Planner for the Business Integration & Planning Group. Her recent efforts at
WSRC include the development and implementation of EVMS training and user
support materials, site policies and procedures, as well as the development
and implementation of the Washington Way Project Management Training at the
Savannah River Site. She is currently a member and is serving as a Board
Member for both AACE International, and the Project Management Institute (PMI),
CSRA Section. She has been an instructor for several training workshops
relating to Earned Value Management, conducted by the AACE CSRA Section.
Terry D. McNew, EVP is a Certified Earned Value Professional (EVP) with a BS
in Engineering Design and Economic Evaluation from the University of Colorado.
Terry has been employed in project controls by Bechtel for over thirty-five
years. He has experience as a cost engineer, estimator, and planner/scheduler
on a variety of large projects, both cost reimbursable and fixed price.
Assignments have included Project Controls Manager on space projects, and on
large fossil and nuclear power plants. He served overseas as the Business
Manager on a defense project before coming to the Savannah River Site.
Included in his twelve years at SRS have been assignments as the division
Project Controls Manager for Defense Programs, the E&PD Chief Cost Engineer,
and now as the Site Chief Cost Engineer and Design Services Project Controls
Manager. Terry has instructed several training workshops on Earned Value
Management for the AACE CSRA Section.
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