Session 1: Introduction and Overview

1. The need for EVM.
2. The role of EVM: Project controls
3. Characteristics of EVM
4. EVM terminology
5. History of EVM

Session 2: Critical Components for Effective Earned Value Management (EVM)

1. Planning for Earned value Management
2. Key Stages in EVM Implementation

Session 1: Scope Management

1. Defining the work to be done
2. Work breakdown structure
3. WBS terminology
4. WBS principles

1. EVM scheduling requirements
2. Master schedule
3. Vertical integration
4. Horizontal integration
5. An oil and gas schedule example 

Session 1: Control Accounts

1. Control account plans.
2. The role of CAPs.
3. Planning and Implementing Risk Responses: Real-World Examples.
4. Monitoring and Controlling Risks: Contingency Planning.
5. CAP ingredients
6. CAP size and number
7. The CAP rule
8. Detailed example for CAP in oil and gas

Session 1: Performance Measurement

1. Establishing an EV measurement baseline
2. Questions answered by the baseline
3. Planning and measuring earned value
4. Establishing an EV measurement system
5. Considerations for choosing a measurement method
6. Methods used to plan and measure EV
7. Example CAP with EV measures
8. Project cost baseline
9. PMB components
10. Managing change

Session 1: Monitoring and Control

1. Monitoring at task level
2. Trend indicators
3. Management by exception
4. Cost performance index and using the CPI
5. Schedule performance index and using the SPI
6. Using Cumulative vs. periodic data

Session 1: Forecasting

1. Factors determining project results
2. Statistical forecasts
3. Estimate at complete
4. To complete performance index
5. Schedule forecasting - EACt

Session 2: EVM criteria review

1. EVM Overview
2. Implementing EVM in oil and gas