EVM Program Control Challenges and Solutions

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Event Date:

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 09:00 - Friday, June 25, 2010 - 17:00

Earned Value Management
Program Control Challenges and Solutions

Advanced Project Management Training Seminar
Presented by Northern Virginia Community College Workforce Development
A PMIWDC Strategic Partner

Please register early if you would like to attend.
This seminar series is extremely popular, and often sells out many weeks in advance.

14 PDUs for Certified PMs

PDUs

This seminar provides 14 PDUs for certified PMs.

Dates and Location

Thursday and Friday, June 24 and 25, 2010

Course Length: 14 hours – 2 class days from 9:00am – 5:00pm
Providing 14 PDUs

NOVA Community College

Reston 2 Center, Room 307

1831 Wiehle Ave

Reston, Virginia 20190

Driving Directions

Registration and Costs

$785 per person

Register online or by phone at calling 703-450-2551. Reference course code BUSC 1613 - 82L
Please register early: The Advanced PM Training series is very popular and space is very limited.

About the Course

Program control means many things to many people. Earned Value is a vital tool program personnel can apply to provide insight into program cost and schedule. This tool facilitates identifying and controlling risk. It ensures all program personnel and stakeholders have the information they require to make critical program decisions.

In this workshop, participants learn the vital role Earned Value plays in program control. Through a series of lectures interspersed between a significant interactive group exercise, participants will learn Earned Value history, formal guidance, formulas, reporting, analysis, and accountability.

Participants work together to establish and execute a program baseline. They develop the program and contract Work Breakdown Structure, decomposing this into measureable work. They apply Earned Value performance methods, and compute Earned Value performance. As a group, they develop and present a Contract Performance Report to their peers. Finally, the participants present information they have researched in response to specific challenges assigned to them during the workshop.

About the Instructor

Blair Alan Knapp Jr., MSPM, PMP
Robbins Gioia

Blair Alan Knapp Jr., MSPM, PMP holds a MS in Project Management from Boston University, a BA in International Affairs/International Economics from The George Washington University, a Masters Certificate in Unix System Administration from The George Washington University, and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from Boston University. He also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Mr. Knapp is a Senior Consulting Manager with Robbins Gioia, where he initially supported the US-VISIT Program Office as a program control analyst. Here, he developed and maintained the program's Earned Value Plan, Policy and Procedures. Additionally, he planned, scheduled, and guided the program’s Integrated Baseline Review process. He also developed and maintained the Program's Program Management Review Plan, Process and Procedures. Currently, Mr. Knapp supports the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Here, he drafted the TSA EVMS and OA Policy, MD 300.11, and the TSA Office of Security Operations Program Planning and Evaluation Review Board (PPERB) portfolio directive, OD-400-30-12. He supports the Office of Security Operations staff in their program portfolio management, process development, and program outreach.

Mr. Knapp has been engaged in program and project management for the past seventeen years, consulting in it for the past ten. He has specialized in IT integration, Program Management Office support, and program control. During this time, he has worked for McDonnell Douglas Aerospace and, subsequently, The Boeing Company installing and supporting systems at such US commands as EUCOM, JAC, SHAPE, and JICPAC. While at Boeing, he also served as the Configuration Manager for a significant IT program. He followed these efforts as a consulting manager with Verity, Inc., a Sunnyvale California-based software company, managing its projects in its Federal market space.

Mr. Knapp is a veteran of the US Navy, where he served first as the aviation squadron Intelligence Officer, then on staff in the Pentagon's Desert Shield/Desert Storm Joint Intelligence Center.