Project Metrics:
Design, Evaluation and Implementation
Description
Companies are increasingly focusing on performance measurement systems to improve their competitiveness. It seems like everywhere you turn managers are being asked to calculate and report an abundance of metrics related to customer satisfaction, process efficiency, financial performance and many others. For a long time, the saying “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” has supported the notion that an organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of people both inside and outside the organization. More recently, project management maturity models, such as SEI CMM, have stressed the importance of measurement for the prediction of future project cost, schedule and risks.
This overwhelming emphasis on metrics has increased the importance of project control systems and corrective action in the daily work life of the project manager. As such, this course has been designed to explore the challenges and opportunities that are faced by project managers in designing, evaluating, and implementing project measurement systems. In this eight-hour session, project metrics control systems and methodologies and the appropriate implementation strategies will be presented and applied to real-life situations through action learning and interactive exercises.
Objectives
- Understand how to design a project metric system that aligns with a company’s strategy, objectives and mission.
- Develop increased knowledge of how interactive and diagnostic project control systems can lead to improved project success.
- Learn the fundamentals of earned value management and how this methodology can substantially improve project performance.
- Develop an understanding of these issues through structured exercises.
- Enhance engineers and managers understanding of project metrics through sharing of best practices among the participants’ companies.
When & Where
- This course is taught in one eight (8) hour session. Note: You must attend all 8 hours to complete this course.
Course Testimonials
When asked what they liked most about this course, past participants commented on the following:
- How we are using the latest metrics tools
- Relevance to real world in project metrics
- Application of project metrics to the work place
Course Information
Instructor
- Greg Holtz, The Boeing Company
Cost
- Please visit the following web site for the cost of classes: How To Join
- (please note that one day of class = 8 hours)
How to Register
- Please register online or contact the JACMET office at 480/727-1519.