This year’s EVM Practitioners’ Forum 2025 will be held at the UVA Darden Conference Center (1100 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209) on Wednesday October 22nd and Thursday October 23rd. In its 15th year, the EVM Practitioners’ Forum presents a two-day workshop for project control professionals, covering EVM tools, analysis, scheduling and reporting.
Wednesday Morning
DoD EVM Policies, Guidance, and Processes
John McGahan, Technical Manager and Chief Scientist at Tecolote Research will present the morning sessions.
Integrated Program Management Data and Analysis Report (IPMDAR) submission, review, and validation process.
- IMDAR DID 81861C comparison to Draft DID 81661D
- What actually happens to your data when you submit it to the EVM-CR?
Relationship and difference between CSDRs and CSDR policy and EV and EV policy.
- What is the data used for?
- What are the differences between the FlexFile vs IPMDAR?
The afternoon tracks will be categorized as Emerging Topics in Project Control and Project Scheduling Best Practices. Attendees will have the option to move between the two categories, picking up the tracks that are most beneficial to their needs.
Emerging Topics in Project Controls
Shawn Collins, Project Manager, Lift Systems at Rolls Royce, will present ‘For want of a Nail-when CAMs and PMs are not EV specialists.’
Jeffrey Christoph, Senior Partner with Transformative Management Solutions LLC, will present ‘Introducing the Integration Relationship Diagramming Method (IRDM)’.
Dr. David Grau, Construction Professor at Arizona State University, will present ‘Making Early and Accurate Project Outcome Predictions’.
Project Scheduling Best Practices
Lisa Hastings, Senior Manager with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., will present ‘Do Level of Effort Tasks Belong in the IMS?’
Denise Russell, Senior Solution Engineer with Deltek, will present ‘Integrating Your BOEs and Proposal with IMS to Develop the Baseline.’
Keith Anderson, IntraManagement Solutions, will present ‘Improving Program Performance is More Important Than Ever.’
Thursday Morning
DoD & Agency EVM Policies, Guidance, and Processes
Kevin Carney, Acting Director of Project Controls at the Dept of Energy Office, will present ‘ASU and DOE IP2M METRR Toolset Benefits for Organizational Change.’
- Fishbone Analysis Linking Environment to Maturity
- Artificial Intelligence Linking Environment to Maturity and Corrective Actions
Andrea Gilstrap, Manager for Policy & Assurance at Idaho National Lab, will present ‘IP2M METRR Self Governance Approach’.
Jon Flemming, NASA EVM Program Executive, and Kristen Kehrer, NASA EVM Deputy Program Executive, will both present ‘A NASA Update’.
The afternoon tracks will be categorized as Emerging Topics in Project Control, Enterprise Best Practices, and Project Controls Analyst Workshop.
Emerging Topics in Project Control
Amber Young, Office of Project Controls at the Dept of Energy, will present a ‘Demonstration of the IP2M METRR assessment tool, EMPACT.’
Laura Bier, Principal at the Transformation Playbook and Dave Scott, Principal at C&S Solutions, will present ‘Project Controls for Agile Projects’.
- Implementing Agile and EVM
- Project Execution
- Performance Measurement Model
Enterprise Best Practices
Dr. David Grau, a Construction Professor at Arizona State University, will present ‘IP2M METRR history, validity and future developments.
Jennifer Leotta, Assistant Director at the Government Accountability Office, will present ‘GAO Guides Update and Recent Audit Findings’.
Laura Bier, Principal at the Transformation Playbook, will present ‘Cultural Factors Impacting Project Controls Effectiveness’.
Project Controls Analyst Workshop
Denise Russell, Senior Solution Engineer at Deltek, and Jessica Coral, Principal with C&S Consulting, will provide an interactive workshop, ‘A Day in the Life of a Project Controls Analyst’.
- Data Analysis Techniques
- Data Visualization Using Dashboards
- Variance Analysis
Registration Details
| Type of Ticket | Price |
| In-person Attendance | $1,195 |
| Virtual Attendance | $895 |
Discounts are available for groups of three or more attendees from the same organization.
To register click here
Summary
The EVM Practitioners’ Forum 2025 offers practical two-day classroom exercises to help project control professionals become more effective in their use of scheduling and EVM tools, analysis, and reporting.
Our friends from Deltek will provide a track as well as sponsoring some of the breaks during EVM Practitioners’ Forum 2025.