SO Instrumentation School: VI. A practical introduction to Project Management and Earn Value Management for scientists, engineers and new project managers

This course will consist on a first part devoted to give a general overview of Project Management oriented to scientific instrumentation projects. It will review the management activities in the different phases of this kind of projects. The second part will de dedicated to EVM (Earn Value Management) which is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress. It has the ability to combine measurements of the main project management objectives: scope, time and costs. Course given by:  Mark Warner is a professionally-licensed engineer and a certified project management professional. He has been in the engineering world for more than 35 years. For the majority of time he has been a manager of projects. He has experience in large/complex/multi-year projects in the following fields: Astronomical observatories Spacecraft Heavy construction Automotive Technology Currently he is the project manager of the Daniel K. Inouye solar Telescope (DIKIST) project Dates: Nov 29th- Dec 3rd, 16:00-18:00 CET