Earned Value Management Course – Senior Management Overview

Is it right for me?

Senior managers in businesses using Earned Value Management who need to understand programme EVM reports.

This course provides the participants with an overview of Earned Value Management, and its benefits to senior management.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Describe the basic principles of Earned Value Management
• State the benefits of using Earned Value Management
• Use Earned Value Management information to challenge ETC and EAC forecasts
• Describe the use of exception reporting
• Describe the duties of their role in supporting open honest communication of programme status

What does it cover?

The course consists of interactive sessions and practical exercises covering the following topics:

The need for EVM

• The need to understand actual financial and schedule progress
• The history of EVM
• The benefits of using EVM

What is EVM

• The basic principles of EVM
• The EVMS criteria
• EVM constraints on programme organisation

Monitoring and reporting with EVM

• Using BCWS, BCWP and ACWP
• Cost and schedule performance indices
• Challenging ETC and EAC with EVM
• Thresholds and exception reporting