Training Workshops

• Dekker TRAKKER® Release 6.0 Applications Workshop
  This course introduced users to the fundamentals of Dekker TRAKKER®. Curriculum included defining the activity ledger, scheduling, resourcing, and establishing activity cost drivers. Other topics included creating a target baseline, trakking progress, what-ifing, and taking performance measurement. This course provided the essential information required for using Dekker TRAKKER®.
   
• Dekker iPursuit® Release 2004 Applications Workshop
  This course provided a hands-on introduction to Dekker iPursuit®. Attendees learned about Digital Dashboards, iGauges, Report Generation, Threshold Definition, Alerts and Actions. This course provided the essential information required for using Dekker iPursuit®.
   
• Project Portfolio Management Analysis With iPursuit
  There are two components to Project Portfolio Management. The first is an Enterprise Project Management engine like Dekker TRAKKER® that completely integrates scheduling, resourcing, costing, accounting, financial management, EVM and performance measurement techniques. The second is an information distribution engine that is able to rapidly deploy information throughout the entire business unit. This is what Dekker iPursuit® is designed to do. Senior executives to line-employees can use and analyze project management information at any level of the organization. Attendees reviewed the analysis reporting capabilities of iPursuit and how to structure its digital dashboards in a way that is meaningful to each individual’s need for information. All iPursuit analysis techniques, including scheduling, resourcing, costing, EVM and performance measurement were covered. The theory and practical adaptation of each analysis technique was reviewed so that iPursuit users can maximize the benefit of this powerful PPM analysis tool.
   
• Using Sort Select & Summarize with Excel
  Due to popular demand, both Dekker TRAKKER® and Dekker iPursuit® have incorporated Microsoft® Excel as a core component for informational views and reporting displays. Sort, Select, and Summarize (SSS) harnesses the power of any data source creating smart-spreadsheet views. This course focused on the application of SSS to empower users to create any desired view of their information. Attendees learned how to navigate the SSS tool, how to effortlessly extract and organize information for analysis through Excel, and how to tailor spreadsheets so that the right information gets presented to the right people at the right time.
   
• Dekker TRAKKER® and Dekker iPursuit® Integration
  Dekker iPursuit® can capture data from a wide array of data sources like Microsoft Project, X-12 EDI, X-12 Extended EDI, XML and various other project management applications. Coupled with iPursuit's full integration with the Dekker TRAKKER® Enterprise Project Management System, project oriented business units are provided with unsurpassed PPM capabilities. Attendees learned the overriding benefits of a TRAKKER and iPursuit combination, integration to Microsoft® Office, data organization and scope, process steps, Dekker DigiSense™ and Dekker iGauge™ Dashboard configurations, and how to get the most out of analysis reports and graphs for a high-performance organization.
   
• Using Microsoft® Project As A PPM Engine
  Microsoft® Project is the most widely used project management system in the world. The extensive data available in MS Project can be used as a PPM engine. In addition, MS Project coupled with Dekker iPursuit® can accommodate all levels of project planning, analysis, and performance measurement, including US Government EVM requirements. Attendees learned the basic PPM attributes of MS Project, scheduling, resourcing, costing, statusing, analysis of enterprise project management data and integrating subcontractor data into the enterprise environment. This course was designed to expose project management professionals and executives to the latest trends in project and program management.
   
• Project Portfolio Management Workshop
  Project management is evolving from separate disciplines to a completely integrated management information strategy. In years past, organizations allowed individual projects to be executed independent of accounting and other performance management systems. The Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Workshop examined the challenges and benefits of integrating all aspects of project management in the enterprise environment. Fast-paced business units involved in widely dispersed operations are integrating scheduling, resource, cost, performance measurement and accounting data to gain a competitive edge while complying with legal and regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and OMB Circular A-11 Part 7. This course examined the elements of PPM and its implementation. Attendees learned the definition of PPM, the components of a sound system, enterprise considerations, isles of excellence approach, and benefits.