How to become an earned value professional in 2024 Part 1

Phoenix, United States

Educating and coaching leaders, professionals and teams are Mart’s passion and is what he has been doing for nearly three decades. Mart works for INTERPROM, a coaching, consulting, training and education firm. Examples of areas he has specialized in are business relationship management, service management, information security management, and project and change management. He is looking forward to sharing his experience with you and to answering your questions.

Mart's proudest achievement: An achievement I’m looking back it is organizing, along with 20 passionate volunteers, a decade long, the annual Arizona ITSM Summit. A one-day event visited by 250+ local ITSM enthusiasts. And sponsored, year-after-year, by 20+ loyal vendors, including Forrester Research and Gartner.

Laurie Bowman is a trainer and mentor with Synchrony Projects, he is passionate about sustainable project planning, risk management and control. With over 3 decades of experience in helping organizations navigate complex projects, Laurie's focus is on supporting individuals and organizations to uplift their capability so they can deliver successful and sustainable projects

Laurie's professional achievements: 

• Registered Professional Engineer (Environmental Engineering)  
• Chair of Engineers Australia’s Ethics Working Group
• Accredited trainer for APMG and AACE International

Laurie's proudest achievement is raising his son, Zac.

Sheila Roberts is the Chief Progress Officer for Resilience Professionals Ltd. She has more than three decades of PPM experience, leading project professionals to deliver successful initiatives. She is accredited in many PPM and supports Best Practices. Sheila is passionate about the need for resilience and facilitating progress. Sheila is a co-author of ‘Business Resilience; A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace.’ She led the development of the Resilience Profile and other unique tools in the Business Resilience Framework.

Sheila is a Consultant, Assessor and Trainer in PPM and Business Resilience. She is a recognised specialist holding positions as Chair of Examiners and Chartered Assessor, in addition to being a Chartered Project Professional herself. She has been elected by competitor organisations as Chair of the PPM Training industry body, the Association for Training Excellence.In her spare time Sheila loves to read, walk, cycle and participates in car related activities with her family.

Tomasz Manugiewicz is the General Manager of Grand Parade Poland. An engineer at heart. A speaker by passion. He has delivered speeches at the largest European IT conferences, also as a keynote speaker. He has had presentations for brands such as Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Poland, Agile Tour London, Agile Central Europe, DevDays Europe, and many more.

He has been in the IT sector since 2006 . Tomasz worked as an Engineering Manager and, at the beginning of his path, when he was a Java developer Engineer, he helped to create the first Polish online banking systems. He also worked for international global corporations, including in the banking and ICT telecom sectors.

Tomasz is an Agile enthusiast and coach - conducted his first Agile Transformation in 2009. He is a co-author of the leadership book "The LiGHT BOOK2 - Leaders' insights for leaders based on true stories". At the AGH University of Technology, he is a lecturer, supporting young engineers on their way to the world of IT.

• Keynote Speaker at DevDays Europe 2022 conference

My proudest achievement is my daughter – Zosia

Besides that, I am proud that I had a chance to speak to 2500 + software engineers during Devoxx Poland conference.

Sachin has 20+ years of ERP transformation experience from the Client, Prime Integrator and Tier Supplier perspectives .  He is a member of the Association of Cost Engineers' (ACostE) Southwest Regional Board, Nuclear Institute's Digital SIG (DIGSIG), and Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Risk & Complexity SIG, Sizewell C Consortium member, and AI for Nuclear (AI4N) Working Group.

 He is also an expert in Project Management Methodologies, Tools, and Product Development Lifecycle(s): MAPM, MIRM, IVM and Six Sigma certified. Sachin is a skilled user of tools to support agile delivery management including being a (Jira, Confluence, Kanban boards, Waterfall, RPA, and Scrum) Deltek Partner, Oracle Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, AXELOS P3M3 Consulting Partner (ACP).

Awards and Nominations - 

Listed below are Sachins past conference presentations, and publications:

• Project Controls 2020 Expo Speaker “Moving Towards Agile Project Delivery for Large Infrastructure Projects”
• Project Controls 2021 Expo Speaker “Using Power Platform to create an autonomous Project Controls office on Transport for London’s (TFL) Piccadilly Upgrade programme”
• Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) 2022 Conference “Digitising your Commercial & Project office”
• PM World Journal “How I learned to stop worrying and love risk”

Sachins proudest achievement includes: 

Developing an ISO9001 certified and Cyber Essentials certified consultancy service which has delivered PMO, Programme Delivery and Transformational Change on major ERP projects, and Infrastructure projects across EMEA, and APAC regions, via framework contracts tendered, and won under our own name, through Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Sachin's Digital Bages :

• Project Controls Expo Speaker (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Deltek Acumen Fuse and Cobra Certified
• Member of the Association of Cost Engineers (MACostE) [Roll No: 7214]
• The Association of Controls Management
• 2019 PMO Global Trends Conference Speaker  [Blockchain ID: 598972]
• Certified Member of Institute of Risk Management (CMIRM)  [Credential ID 1964]
• Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt)
• Member of Association of Project Managers (MAPM)
• Application Associate, Project System with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP
• Past AXELOS P3M3 Assessor and ACP Consulting Partner

Darrel's primary focus is on improving IT's capability to explicitly connect IT to business objectives that dramatically increase value delivery for an organization. With experience in developing and implementing IT solutions, leading and shaping high performance teams, managing projects and programs, and implementing cross departmental process improvements, Darrel has the hands-on experience necessary to make strategic direction an actual outcome. Coaching executives across the world, Darrel is a respected thought leader in his field, with a passion for leadership and business relationship management (BRM). He has been involved with BRM training and implementation for many organizations and has spoken at a number of CIO conferences on the topic. His extensive experience in technology and business make him a valuable asset to any organization.