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Earned Value Management Black Belt Course Outline

Module 1: What is Earned Value Management?

  • Introduction
  • 32 EVM Guidelines
  • Revisions and Data Maintenance

Module 2: Why Use EVM?

  • Need for EVM
  • Why is EVM Implemented?
  • Why Use Earned Value Management?
  • Benefits of EVM
  • EVMS Mandate
  • Business Case
  • Business Case Contents

Module 3: Key Terminology

  • Key Terminology Revision
  • EVM Formulae
  • Reporting Graphs
    • Exercise

Module 4: EVM Principles

  • What Does EVM Require?
  • EVM Planning Process
  • How Do We Define a Scope?
  • Requirements and Key Deliverables
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Preparing WBS and WBS Dictionary
  • Organisation Breakdown Structure (OBS)
  • Defining Control Accounts
  • Planning Vs Work Packages
  • Work Packages
  • Rolling Wave Planning
  • Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • Sub-Contract Management
  • Scheduling
  • Hierarchy of Schedules
  • Scheduling and Resource Management
  • Critical Path Method
  • Develop Schedule Baseline
  • Establish Schedule Baseline
  • Budgeting Vs Funding
  • Setting Budget
  • Distributed and Undistributed Budget
  • Performance Measurement Baseline
  • Management Reserve (MR)
  • Contract Budget Baseline

Module 5: Establishing Performance Measurement Baseline

  • Establishing PMB
  • Objective Measures of Progress
  • Baselining the Project
  • Why is PMB Needed?
  • Data Collection

Module 6: Forecasting and Measuring Performance

  • Project Tracking
  • EVM Formulae
  • Variance Analyses
  • Schedule Variance
  • Reporting Graphs
  • Performance Trend Charts
  • Performance Indices
  • Cost Performance Index
  • Schedule Performance Index
  • Estimate at Completion (EAC)
  • Estimate to Completion (ETC)
  • Simple Tests of Reasonableness
  • TCPI
  • Reporting and Interpreting Results
  • Tolerances
  • Setting Tolerances
  • Problem Indicators
  • Analysis Review and Action
  • Corrective Actions

Module 7: Stakeholder Management and Communication

  • What is a Stakeholder?
  • Stakeholders? Who are They?
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Stakeholder Types
  • Stakeholder Identification
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Segmenting and Prioritising Stakeholders
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Engaging Stakeholders
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Communication Planning
  • Communicating Change for Stakeholders

Module 8: Change and Risk Management

  • Change Management
  • Maintaining Integrity
  • When to Make Changes?
  • How to Make Changes?
  • Risk
  • Integrating Risk Management with EVM
  • Benefits of Risk Management
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Management Procedure
  • Identify Step
  • Risk Identification Techniques
  • Types of Risks
  • Assess Step
  • Summary Risk Profile
  • Plan Step
  • Responses
  • Implement Step

Module 9: EVM System Review

  • Benefits of a System Review
  • Unscheduled System Review
  • Categories of System Review
  • Overview of EVM Reviews
  • Integrated Baseline Review
  • Demonstration Review
  • Surveillance

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Who should attend this Earned Value Management Black Belt Course?

The Earned Value Management Black Belt Course in Dallas is intended to provide learners with a full understanding of Earned Value Management concepts. It is a highly specialised Course that can benefit a variety of professionals, including:

  • Project Managers
  • Program Managers
  • Portfolio Managers
  • Quality Managers
  • Cost Engineers
  • Business Analysts
  • Financial Analysts

Prerequisites of the Earned Value Management Black Belt Course 

There are no formal prerequisites for this Earned Value Management Black Belt Course.

Earned Value Management Black Belt Course Overview

The Earned Value™ Black Belt Course in Dallas is an intensive examination of the essentials and advanced theories associated with Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques that combine with project scope, time, and cost data. It is, therefore, necessary to know ejsionline.net, as it provides an ability to give a true picture of performance versus the planned project for effective management of complex projects.

If students or professionals in project management, cost control, and project finance, among whom were the project managers, cost engineers, and financial analysts, they should master EVM in its entirety. Mastery in the subject in Dallas shall make them predict the outputs of the project more accurately, manage the budget most efficiently, and assure that the completion of the project takes place in time and within the budget.

The Knowledge Academy’s 3 Day course in Dallas provides delegates with the necessary skills to deploy EVM principles effectively within their projects. All concepts are discussed and applied in practice during the course, making sure that delegates are able to apply the EVM techniques at their places of work for better project delivery and improved financial management right away.

Course Objectives

  • To understand the principles and fundamentals of Earned Value Management (EVM).
  • To learn how to integrate project scope, time, and cost measures to establish a robust EVM system.
  • To master the interpretation of EVM metrics for effective project performance analysis
  • To develop the skills necessary to forecast project outcomes using EVM data accurately.
  • To explore advanced EVM techniques and their applications in managing complex projects.
  • To prepare delegates for practical implementation of EVM strategies in their project management practices.

The delegates in Dallas will learn and acquire skills in implementing Earned Value Management strategies effectively in their projects on completion of the course. This will improve their ability to make better decisions, therefore raising the performance and financial management of their projects with an improved success rate in their projects.  

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What’s included in this Earned Value Management Black Belt Course?

  • Earned Value Management Black Belt Examination
  • World-Class Training Sessions from Experienced Instructors
  • Earned Value Management Black Belt Certificate
  • Digital Delegate Pack

Earned Value Management Black Belt Exam

To achieve the Earned Value Management Black Belt, candidates will need to sit for an examination. The exam format is as follows: 

  • Question Type: Multiple Choice 
  • Total Questions: 30 
  • Total Marks: 30 Marks 
  • Pass Mark: 65%, or 19/30 Marks 
  • Duration: 60 Minutes
  • Open Book/ Closed Book: Closed Book

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Dallas is a large city in the state of Texas, USA. It is most famous for its oil and cotton industries and its busy railroad lines. The city has population of around 1,300,000 people and is home to a large amount of Fortune 500 companies. In Dallas, there are 337 public schools, almost 90 private schools and 38 colleges. Dallas is the centre of education in the southern central United States. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School is an exclusive medical school admitting only about 200 students per year. Other universities include Texas Women’s University which is a nursing school located in Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Dallas Baptist University which is a private university that offers Biblical and Christian subjects. It enrols around 5,500 people and provides students with graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degrees. Criswell College is a university started by the First Baptist Church of Dallas in the 1970s, also offering Biblical studies and has around 400 students enrolled currently. Dallas Theological Seminary offers students seminaries in the evangelical faith and boasts an alumni of around 12,000 people. There are a number of universities in the close proximity of Dallas including The University of Dallas in Irving and the El Centro College. El Centro College was established in 1966 and has a student population of around 10,000 students and as is one of the only universities in Dallas which offers fashion design and marketing programs as well as food hospitality programs. The main school district of Dallas is the Dallas Independent School District which enrols over 160,000 students.  The School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas was voted the best school in the United States numerous times and another Dallas school, the Science and Engineering Magnet has been named number two in the very same list on numerous occasions. There are a high number of private schools in Dallas, including The Hockaday School, Burton Adventist Academy, Parish Episcopal School, The Winston School, Yavneh Academy of Dallas and Dallas Lutheran School.

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