LCSI develops and delivers project management training in both individual and group settings.  All seminars feature exposure to modern project management techniques, providing a "best practices" orientation.

"Earned Value for Project Managers"  - $697.00

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Half-Day Seminar - (4.0 PDUs)

Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money.  This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, link tasks to resources, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.

Who Should Attend
    New project managers
    Project team members
    Professionals with project management responsibilities
    Team leaders with diverse project staff to influence
    Professional working with multi-functional teams
    Candidates for PMP Certification

Key Topics Addressed within a Comprehensive Framework for Earned Value Management:

	Earned Value Heritage
	Overview of Earned Value
	Baseline Date Relationships
	Cost/Schedule Graphs (S-curves)
	Earned Value Reporting Charts
	Integrated Project Baselines
	DoD Earned Value Body of Knowledge
	Performance Indices (CPi and SPi)
	Work Breakdown Structures
	WBS Dictionaries
	Forming the Project Baseline
	Points of Management Control
	Earned Value Measurement Methods
	Elements of a Cost Account Plan
	Tracking Cumulative CPi and SPi
	Isolating Schedule and Cost Variances
	Adjusting “Actual” Costs
	Monitoring Schedule Performance
	Scope Changes to the Baseline
	Forecasting Final Cost and Schedule
	Lessons Learned . . .

Key Benefits

    Learn how to set project goals to meet customer expectations
    Explore ways to motivate project team members and support staff
    Understand how to successfully work across functional boundaries
    Examine tools for coping with time, cost, and performance constraints
    Study concepts and techniques to reduce stress in meeting project deadlines
    Learn how and when to implement change in project scheduling

Program Leader - David Lanners, MBA (Harvard)

As an executive consultant and President of LCS International, David Lanners specializes in helping senior executives and business owners build successful project-driven organizations.  He has refined his skills through more than two decades of delivering executive consulting services and seminars in operations management, new product development, engineering administration, and project management.  Before founding LCSI, he held technical, senior advisory and managerial positions with several major high-tech companies.  He served on the Industry Advisory Council for SMU’s School of Engineering and on the Program Advisory Council for LeTourneau University.

Mr. Lanners received his project management professional certification from the Project Management Institute in 1993 and served three terms as president of the 2,500+ member Dallas Chapter where under his leadership more than 1,000 local members earned their professional certification and the Chapter tripled in size in less than three years.  Mr. Lanners received the prestigious certified management consultant designation from the Institute of Management Consultants in 2003.  In addition, he is certified as a value specialist by SAVE International (formerly the Society of American Value Engineers) and as a quality auditor, quality engineer, and quality manager by the American Society for Quality.  He is also certified at the fellow level in production and inventory management and certified in integrated resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.  Mr. Lanners was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma national business honor society and is a member of Mensa and Intertel.  He received an A.E.S. degree from Normandale College, a B.S.B. degree from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard.

Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money. This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, link tasks to resources, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.  This seminar is designed to provide you with practical skills that improve project processes and outcomes.

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