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Event Details
02/20/10 February 20th Tutorial
About the Tutorial
Just as a doctor measures blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate on a patient, project metrics serve as key indicators that enable a project manager to measure and monitor the health of a project. Moreover, project metrics can provide early warning signs of an impending problem and contribute to improving internal project practices. The focus of this course is on developing and managing data-driven, transparent metrics to enable informed decisions and monitor project health throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Project managers must balance the competing demands of scope, time, cost, risk, and quality; stakeholders with differing needs and expectations; and meeting project requirements. Clear, concise metrics will enable a project manager to: evaluate actual progress against planned progress; manage risk; manage team performance; efficiently and effectively change course when necessary; focus on the short and long term successes of the project; improve project processes; communicate project health status; and maintain a better balance between the needs of customers, shareholders, and employees.
Course Objectives
• Understand the value of measuring a project
• Define, identify, and select the most important metrics
• Implement a project metrics system
• Analyze, display, track, and report project metrics for customers, stakeholders, and employees
• Develop a project metrics dashboard to obtain a snapshot of a project’s health throughout the project lifecycle
• Use project metrics to improve internal project processes and share best practices
About the Instructor
Steven Meier, Ph.D., PMP is the founder of SRM Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in system acquisition lifecycle management, project management, performance measurement, and systems engineering focused on the defense and intelligence communities. Dr. Meier has 20+ years of federal and private industry experience focused on the defense and intelligence communities. Dr. Meier has served on numerous federal internal advisory teams that resulted in major organizational enhancements to program strategy and to core acquisition processes and implementation. In addition, Dr. Meier has also provided thought leadership with over 30+ peer-reviewed publications and presentations in the areas of acquisition strategy, project management, and technology. He has spoken at the Project Management Institute, the International Council on Systems Engineering, and the Defense Acquisition University. Dr. Meier is an adjunct faculty in the project management curriculum at Georgetown University and teaches courses on system acquisition lifecycle management for organizations. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Physics and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), certified Contractor Officer Technical Representative (COTR) Level 3, and has earned graduate certificates from Georgetown University in Executive Leadership and Business Administration. Dr. Meier currently holds a TS/SCI/full-scope polygraph security clearance. He can be reached at srmeier@hotmail.com.
** Food will be served **
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