Training

At the heart of any successful management system implementation lays a core of knowledgeable individuals. At VitalThought, we provide training and educational programs designed to help those individuals gain the right level of knowledge at the time when they most need it.

Our training programs, which have been delivered to over 9,000 attendees from a wide variety of industries in seven countries, cover the entire earned value management system (EVMS) process, and have received critical acclaim from the people most affected b the training—those in attendance. Our training programs can be modified to match specific management system methodologies at a particular company, and are designed to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Some of the training programs currently being offered include:

• Earned Value Management Systems Basic Concepts Seminars

    – EVMS Basic Concepts: Executive Overview (1 to 2 hours)

    – EVMS Basic Concepts: The Planning Phase (10 hours)

    – EVMS Basic Concepts: The Control Phase (4 hours)

• Earned Value Management Systems Workshops

    – Building the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
           (1½  hours)

    – Detail Planning Considerations (2 hours)

    – The Variance Analysis Process (2 hours)

    – Developing the Estimate At Completion (EAC) (2 hours)

    – Data Usage (2 hours)

    – Baseline Maintenance (2 hours)

While there are times when we will provide a single training program to help a company understand the effort necessary to implement an earned value management system, most of our training programs are delivered as part of a comprehensive consulting engagement. By receiving only the training that is needed at any given time, the users of the management system are not overwhelmed by the vast array of data available to them. For instance, we have found little value in providing an in-depth program of data analysis if an organization is still struggling with getting the data into the management system, let alone out of the system.