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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Integrated Cost and Schedule Control
Date: September 13-15, 2004
Location: Vienna, VA
Event Sponsor: Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. (CHEP)
Event Description: Be proactive and in control of your project. Effective cost and schedule management are cornerstone activities of projects. Determine how best to plan the execution of a project scope, considering stakeholder budget and schedule constraints. Establish the performance measurement baseline (PMB). Gain proficiency in the tools and techniques used to compare actual work accomplished against established plans. By identifying early warning indicators, you will gain greater insight into potential risk areas and take the necessary corrective action to keep the project in control. Participants will receive copies of Parviz Rad's Project Estimating and Cost Management and Gregory Haugan's Project Planning and Scheduling.

Requirements Definition Week
Date: September 20-24, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C
Event Sponsors: TheCapitol.Net
Event Description: Core competencies for defining software requirements are more relevant now than ever. Project teams need straightforward approaches, tools and techniques for successfully identifying, analyzing, specifying and documenting better user requirements for software projects. PESG has created this best practices training curriculum for mastering the challenges associated with defining better requirements. The program offers a complete toolkit of approaches, techniques and skills you need to improve your organization's requirements definition process. Topics include: - A Framework for Better Requirements - Use Case Modeling Best Practices - Validating Requirements with Reviews - Requirements Management - Collaborative Techniques for Requirements Definition Scenarios

Assessing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Steady State IT Projects
Date: September 21, 2004
Location: Alexandria, VA
Event Sponsors: FCW Media Group and the E-Gov Institute
Event Description: This session provides comprehensive coverage of IT operational analysis methods and techniques. Once an asset has been acquired and is in use, operational analysis takes place in accordance with a schedule of fixed milestones or on a cyclical basis. It is a formal analysis that determines whether the asset is meeting program objectives and the needs of the owners and users, as well as performing within baseline cost, schedule, and performance goals.

Managing Project Quality
Date: September 27-30, 2004
Location: Vienna, VA
Event Description: Before your organization builds or creates a product, service, or process, ensure that it meets the highest quality standards! This intensive course focuses on fundamental quality management tenets of leading thinkers such as Deming, Juran, and Crosby. Learn how quality is related to virtually all areas of a project. Use proven tools and techniques for planning and implementing quality methods in a project environment. Discover valuable sampling and assessment techniques to guarantee project quality management. Gain expertise in quality standards of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Six Sigma, and Baldridge. Participants receive a copy of the Evans and Lindsay text, The Management and Control of Quality.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Making a Business Case for a Capital Investment
Date: September 7-10, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Description: Using an IT project as an example, learn how to prepare a business case for a capital investment as required by OMB Circular A-11 and understand the relationship between the President's Management Agenda, your agency's strategic plan, your agency's major goals and objectives and your proposed project. Learn the role played by the following quantitative techniques in preparing the business case: life-cycle costs and benefits; alternative analysis; cost-benefit analysis; return on investment; payback analysis; net present value; and earned value.

Improving the FY 2006 Congressional Justification Budget
Date: September 9, 2004
Location: Alexandria, VA
Event Description: Departments and agencies continue to make progress in transforming the structure of their Departmental, OMB, and Congressional Justification budgets. Achieving the dual purposes of aligning resources and strategies with goals and performance measures and meeting Congressional appropriator needs continues to be a challenge. This informative one-day course presents lessons learned and approaches for strengthening the CJ budget submission to ensure effective integration of budget and performance.

Performance Measurement for Government
Date: September 20-23, 2004
Location: Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport, Arlington, VA
Event Description: Attend this conference to learn how to measure and monitor your strategic plan to ensure innovative, efficient government. Hear from leading agency representatives and experts such as the U.S. Army, District of Columbia, U.S. Forest Service, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and more, what it takes to make performance measurement an integral part of your strategic planning process and advance your efforts to the next level.

Performance Measurement: Best Practices to Drive Results
Date: September 30 – October 1, 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Event Description: Comparative measures and metrics that are relevant and trusted are being sought to provide business leaders with the information needed to make strategic decisions and improve business processes. APQC's 2004 performance measurement conference will showcase proven best practices and approaches for developing and implementing effective performance measurement systems.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

OPM Federal Workforce Conference
Date: September 8-10, 2004
Location: Baltimore, MD
Event Description: To better understand the challenges facing the federal workforce and learn how to design solution-oriented human capital strategies, the OPM Federal Workforce Conference to be held Sept. 8-10, 2004, at the Baltimore Convention Center will provide a premier opportunity. The three-day conference will feature plenary sessions and workshops on changes and new directions in the human resources field as well as operational issues. Federal government leaders, managers and practitioners involved in planning and implementing human capital initiatives will find this national conference enhancing their knowledge of overall HR strategies and will enable them to deliver better services.

Strategic HR: Aligning with the Business to Drive Results
Date: October 12-14, 2004
Location: Los Angeles, CA – Westin Century Plaza Hotel & Spa
Event Description: The Society for Human Resource Management invites you to a new event that focuses on strategic HR. A team of HR experts will share their wisdom about how to think and act strategically—the HR way. Enhance your role in your company’s success, perfect your planning and communication strategies, and lead in a way that demonstrates HR’s value. Don’t miss this premiere strategic conference event.

2004 Workforce Excellence Summit
Date: September 14-16, 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Description: The 2004 Workforce Excellence Summit is the most comprehensive "how to" workforce development summit with three exciting tracks to design, measure, manage and improve your workforce development program. - Managing & Measuring Performance and Workforce Investments: Apply common measures to workforce development programs and report outcomes effectively - Employment Service Delivery Strategies: Develop high quality workforce development service to maximize the potential of our labor force - Overcome Barriers to Job Retention and Career Advancement: Identify how to better match workers to jobs and overcome those barriers to long-term employment with effective support services.

ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT

Performance-Based Service Contracting
Date: September 13-17, 2004
Location: Vienna, VA
Event Description: Contracting personnel who must work with program officials to plan, award, and administer performance-based service contracts will benefit from this course. After successful completion, the student will be able to: discuss the unique aspects of service contracting; analyze requirements with respect to the ability to contract based on performance; select the method of contracting and source selection process in a performance-based environment; prepare a QASP; and administer a performance-based service contract.

Adding Value To The Procurement Process
Date: October 24, 2004
Location: Houston, TX
Event Description: This workshop focuses on ways the processional purchaser adds value to the procurement process by illustrating how the purchaser can enhance both the process and relations with

Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Defining "value" and its application to Procurement
• Determining the value of Procurement within the organization
• Discuss concepts of Value Analysis and vendor outreach
• Identifying short and long-term strategies for adding value

Performance-Based Service Contracting
Date: September 13-17, 2004
Location: Vienna, VA
Event Description: Contracting personnel who must work with program officials to plan, award, and administer performance-based service contracts will benefit from this course. After successful completion, the student will be able to: discuss the unique aspects of service contracting; analyze requirements with respect to the ability to contract based on performance; select the method of contracting and source selection process in a performance-based environment; prepare a QASP; and administer a performance-based service contract.