This APMG International Earned Value Foundation & Practitioner course teaches the essentials of earned value management (EVM), focusing on techniques to help assess project performance, cost and schedule. With hands-on exercises, participants develop valuable skills in forecasting, monitoring, and reporting that apply directly to real-world projects.
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APMG International Earned Value™ Foundation & Practitioner
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Empower your project performance with Earned Value
By building awareness of critical project factors and understanding the core principles of EVM, this course facilitates development in both technical skills and strategic thinking, supporting your professional growth and effectiveness in project environments.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Define the concepts of earned value
- Select and deploy earned value formulae
- Describe the earned value process
- Explain different levels of system review
- Establish a performance measurement baseline for a project
- Design and evaluate earned value data collection processes for a specific project
- Interpret earned value data for a given scenario and make recommendations on appropriate action
- Manage changes to a performance measurement baseline appropriately
- Allow for risk in the planning, execution, and evaluation of an earned value project
- Apply methods to review the integrity, validity, and performance of an earned value management system
What you'll learn
Develop essential skills in measuring project performance, managing costs, and predicting schedules on this Earned Value Foundation & Practitioner course. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge building and practical exercises you will learn how to forecast outcomes, address risks proactively and manage project resources.
Planning and budgeting techniques
Effective project management begins with robust planning and budgeting techniques. In this course, you will learn how to establish clear project baselines that define scope, schedule and budget, and can act as a benchmark for project progress. You will explore how to allocate budgets in a way that aligns with your project’s goals and resources, ensuring that funds are distributed strategically across different project phases.
Measuring and monitoring project performance
Learn to track schedule and cost variances by comparing the Planned Value (PV), Earned Value (EV) and Actual Cost (AC) of a project. By understanding how these metrics relate to each other, you can spot deviations early and access whether a project is progressing as planned, whether costs are being controlled, and whether corrective actions are needed.
Forecasting costs and schedules
The course will equip you with the tools to predict future project performance accurately. You will learn to use EVM tools to forecast both costs and schedules, helping you to anticipate challenges before they arise. By mastering these forecasting tools, you will be able to provide accurate projections to stakeholders, keep the project aligned with expectations, and avoid costly overruns or delays.
What's included
- Accredited APMG International Earned Value Foundation and Practitioner training
- APMG International Earned Value Foundation and Practitioner exams
- Earned Value Management Handbook
- Tutor support
- Further optional extras, including Pass Protect, available at checkout
FAQs
This course offers essential training in earned value management, from foundational concepts to advanced practices, ensuring you are well-prepared to implement EVM in your projects and achieve certification.
What is APMG International Earned Value Foundation & Practitioner?
Earned Value Foundation & Practitioner is a comprehensive training course that covers both the fundamental and advanced aspects of earned value management in one. Designed for project professionals who want to build a complete skill set in project performance management, the course begins at Foundation, introducing the core concepts behind EVM. Learners then progress to Practitioner, where they develop skills in applying EVM techniques to real-world scenarios.
What are the exam formats and pass marks for Earned Value Foundation & Practitioner?
For Foundation, the exam is multiple choice and closed book, but you are allowed to take in a calculator. You will have 60 minutes to answer 40 questions and need to achieve a score of 26 out of 40 to pass (65%).
For Practitioner, the exam is based on objective testing and is open book (Earned Value Management Handbook only), with the allowance of a calculator. You will have three hours to answer four questions, each worth 20 marks. To pass, you need to achieve a score of 40 marks or more (50%).
Is prior project management experience required for the Earned Value certification?
You don’t need to have any project management experience for the Foundation course and exam, although it’s best suited to those who understand the earned value management guidelines, and who are currently involved, or soon to be involved, in an earned value project environment.
For the Practitioner exam, you should have at least two years’ experience working in earned value projects.
How long will it take to complete the course?
The Foundation course will take two days to complete, and for the Practitioner it will be three. For our combined Foundation & Practitioner course you will be required to attend our in-person or virtual classroom for five days.
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