Earned Value Management

Related Program Areas: Project Management
Related Certificates: Certificate in Project Management

Course Description:

Earned Value Management is an established project management technique for effectively and objectively managing projects scope, cost, and schedule constraints. In today’s competitive business environment, industry and federal government agencies are adopting earned value as a tool and technique to maintain and advance their organizations and to ensure success throughout the project life cycle. Earned Value Management provides a solid and repeatable framework for core project management processes. Earned Value Management is a project management technique used to objectively evaluate cost/schedule status, forecast future impacts, and communicate risks and recovery planning strategies to the project team. Earned Value Management is critical to planning, executing, tracking, and controlling projects, and specialized skills are required to effectively implement an Earned Value Management System. This wide-ranging, fast-paced course is designed to expose participates to core and advanced Earned Value Management principles while incorporating case studies, group and individuals exercises and group discussions. This course will benefit Project Managers as well as all team members supporting project’s implementing earned value. This course is based on the best practices from the PMBOK® and ANSI-748-A. This course will provide you with a understanding around implementing earned value, how to use it as a proactive project management tool and how to use earned value to facilitate risk management and corrective action.

Spring 2008

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Location:
Clarendon Campus
Room238

Tuition:
$950

Class Meets:
Friday, 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Saturday, 8:30am - 4:30pm
June 6, 7, 2008

Continuing Education Units:
1.0 CEUs

Faculty:
Tim Boatwright


Georgetown University
School of Continuing Studies
Box 571006
Washington, DC 20057
(202) 687-8700
Georgetown University
Center for Continuing and Professional Education
3101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22201
(202) 687-7000