PMFORUM Breaking News

The PMI College of Performance Management (PMI-CPM) has announced that Walter Fancher of Spirit AeroSystems will deliver a keynote speech at the EVM World 2009 Project Performance Management Conference being held in May 2009. The PMI-CPM will hold its 25^th Annual International Earned Value Management (EVM) conference, with the title EVM World 2009 Project Performance Management Conference, at the Naples Grande Resort Hotel in Naples, Florida, USA during 27-29 May 2009.

Walter Fancher is the Manager of Business Operations at Spirit AeroSystems. He has several years experience in teaching finance, organizational theory, business management and project management as an adjunct professor at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He has developed and taught classes for Rockwell International and Boeing. He has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration Degree; he also has several course units in Management by Objectives from UCLA. In all Mr. Fancher has 25 years of professional experience in industrial engineering, capacity planning, finance, scheduling, and business operations. He is also licensed in Early Settlement (Mediation) for the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has received a Certificate of Achievement from Princeton Premier as a Professional Business Leader, and is a member of Delta Mu Delta, an honor society in Business Administration

EVM World 2009 will be one of the best opportunities in the world this year to learn more about project performance management techniques, including EVM. The conference will provide training classes, presentations on current topics from practicing professionals, access to world leaders in project performance management, networking and the latest in software and consulting services.

If you are involved with earned value, performance management or governmental projects and programs, don't miss this opportunity to learn from the best, meet world leaders in this field, and advance your careers. Participants can also earn PDUs for PMP recertification. For information or to register, visit www.pmi-cpm.org

The PMI College of Performance Management (PMI-CPM) is a knowledge-based component of the Project Management Institute (PMI^®), the world's largest professional organization for project management. PMI-CPM was originally established as the Performance Management Association, but became the first college of PMI in 1999. PMI-CPM is an international, non-profit professional organization dedicated to the disciplines of project management and performance measurement. The organization assists earned value professionals and project managers with professional growth, and promotes the application of earned value management globally. PMI-CPM is a growing body of professionals dedicated to managing projects on time and on budget. Visit www.pmi-cpm.org

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