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Dekker Seminar Series - Past Webinars
Past Dekker Seminar Series Webinars
Inside the Schedule: Logic and Relationships
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Register now for a free webinar exploring methods used by government agencies to evaluate the logical relationships driving complex project schedules. Learn how to apply these same criteria to ensure the networked relationships in your own schedule continue to give you reliable insights into overall project health.
Although it has not been officially published, the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) developed a 14-Point Schedule Assessment to analyze defense contract performance consistently. This webinar will examine the checks DCMA trains their analysts to use when evaluating how well the schedule is linked together, and how well it communicates accurate estimates for project completion. In addition, it will discuss powerful reporting techniques and schedule checks contractors can use themselves to verify schedule health before submitting performance data.
In this webinar, you will:
- Identify the 14 points of the DCMA schedule assessment used to train government analysts
- Discover how DCMA evaluates the logical connections between activities
- Examine the DCMA guidelines on using leads, lags, and constraints to manipulate the schedule
- Learn how to visualize relationship types and connections through formatted reports
The "Inside the Schedule" series of webinars from Dekker, Ltd. will cover all 14 points of the DCMA schedule assessment in depth, and provide project managers, schedulers, and other project professionals with additional insights that will help them reliably capture and analyze accurate project performance data.
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Inside the Schedule: Tripwires and Beyond
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View a free webinar that will take a look at a pair of industry-standard metrics for evaluating project schedule health, and explore additional reports that can provide even greater insight into true schedule performance.
Although it has not been officially published, the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) developed a 14-Point Schedule Assessment to analyze defense contract performance consistently. This webinar will examine the two checks specially designated by DCMA as "tripwire metrics," and introduce two additional reports contractors can run in order to get a clearer, more accurate picture of the true health of their project schedules before submitting period performance data.
In this webinar, you will:
- Identify the 14 points of the DCMA schedule assessment used to train government analysts
- Examine the two "tripwire metrics" from the DCMA checklist - what makes them "tripwires," and what they say about the schedule
- Visualize these metrics as formatted reports
- Explore Activity Shadowing and Start & Finish Charts as sources of additional schedule insights
The "Inside the Schedule" series of webinars from Dekker, Ltd. will cover all 14 points of the DCMA schedule assessment in depth, and provide project managers, schedulers, and other project professionals with additional insights that will help them reliably capture and analyze accurate project performance data.
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First Look: Dekker TRAKKER® Version 8.0
December 14, 2011
Dekker TRAKKER® is the project and Earned Value Management engine that drives the Dekker PMIS™ (Program Management Information System). TRAKKER integrates scope, schedule, resource, cost, financials, and risk into a single source of reliable project performance information. Dekker's flagship product since 1984, TRAKKER interfaces with multiple database types, accounting systems, scheduling tools, and more to give project managers unequaled insight into up-to-date contract performance.
If you are a current Dekker customer interested in taking a first look at the new updates in Version 8.0, if you are currently looking for a project management tool, or if you are experiencing performance or customer support issues with your current solution, this is a webinar you will not want to miss.
In this webinar, you will:
- Explore the core functionality of Dekker TRAKKER®, and how it effectively streamlines and integrates project management efforts
- Learn about the new CAP screen interface, integrating cost, schedule, and resources at a single glance
- Glimpse the new Data Validator Tool, which provides users with the ability to run over twenty different data validation processes against their projects
- View the new ways in which Trakker addresses variance and variance definitions, providing more flexibility and functionality than any other release
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Federal Agency EVM Reporting
November 2, 2011
This webinar covers reporting Earned Value Management (EVM) data to the government using new web-based tools currently being deployed inside federal agencies. Government contractors can gain significant insight into how their data is received and viewed by defense and civilian agencies. As the designers of Dekker iProgram™, currently being used to track over $90 billion in federal projects, Dekker, Ltd. has unique insight into the way these systems capture and analyze project performance data.
In this webinar:
- Learn how evolving government reporting standards and tools address contractor project performance in order to perform effective lifcecycle project management
- Glimpse the types of reports and analytics available to government agencies using these systems
- Discover ways performance organizations such as government contractors can effectively analyze their own data before submitting it to the customer
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