Presentation 1 of 3: What is EVM … and Why Should I Care?
Abstract: The notion of Earned Value Management may seem very intimidating and burdensome to project managers at first, but once you come to understand the fundamentals and reasons behind them, you will see that EVM can be used to better manage all your projects (at work and at home). This presentation will address the fundamentals in an approachable fashion so that it can be understood and welcomed as another tool in any PM’s toolkit.
PMI Talent Triangle Skill: Technical Project Management
Paper and Presentation 2 of 3: Earned Capabilities Management: A New Approach to Agile Governance, Building on EVM Best Practices
Abstract: This presentation and paper focuses on the Program Executive/Sponsor stakeholder perspective. It brings together Agile concepts, EVM/project controls, and Capabilities-Based Planning to address the ultimate goals of the project….delivering value to the organization.
Currently, no popular methods exist to effectively track projects in terms of the return on investment (ROI) in dollars earned per dollar spent for projects with high levels of scope uncertainty. Traditional project management estimates project efficiency with EVM based on estimated effort to complete tasks within a defined scope. Agile management focuses on meeting the “definition of done” for evolving business requirements given time and cost constraints, but does not allow for a meaningful way to track efficiency or effectiveness.
Earned Capabilities Management (ECM):
- Focuses leadership’s attention on changes in a project’s timely delivery of capabilities with positive ROI, independent of a project’s original scope,
- Enables leadership to validate and verify Capability ROI during execution and aids in the decision-making process of determining when an Agile project is “done enough.”
- Emphasizes fast delivery of capabilities while they are still useful to the enterprise to ensure positive Capability ROI.
- Encourages rethinking the original scope to deliver cheaper alternatives, adjust for competing objectives, and discover novel solutions.
- Defends and maximizes the return on organization budgets, by always tying the capability lifecycle back to achieving the mission and vision.
The presentation will focus on core concepts, as well as project definition, control, and scaling for integrated project management using Capability ROI as the principle project performance metric.
PMI Talent Triangle Skill: Technical Project Management
Presentation 3 of 3: Panel Discussion:Technical Performance Measures: When is Done “Done”?
Abstract: Technical Performance Measures are the secret to any successful program control system. All too frequently tasks are planned without clearly defining when the work is complete. Tasks fall prey to ongoing effort in a schedule and as a result do not provide a clear picture of project progress. No critical path can be assessed and the forecast finish date can not serve as a prediction of when the project will complete. This panel session will discuss what constitutes a good technical performance measure and what can go wrong on projects with poorly documented technical performance measures.
PMI Talent Triangle Skill: Technical Project Management
Biography: Ms. Robin Pulverenti, EVP, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM
Ms. Pulverenti has 16 years of project management, planning, and controls experience in the civilian and defense sectors across a broad range of industries including consumer product and business-to-business manufacturing, information technology, aerospace & defense, as well as across all stages of the product development life cycle. Ms. Pulverenti has two bachelors of science and two masters degrees and remains current in the leading project management and planning certifications including Agile and EVM. Ms. Pulverenti was previously Director of Certification for the Syracuse, NY chapter of the Project Management Institute and has been an active volunteer with the CPM Education and Certification team since 2013, serving as Dean for the CPM-300 Schedule Management training track of their Professional Education Program.
