The 11th Annual NetPoint & Graphical Path Method Conference will be available virtually from the comfort of your home or office. Join us for the two-day program focused on advancing the practice of planning and scheduling. Led by industry professionals, attendees can explore, discover, and harness project planning and scheduling skills. The event is open to all project planners, schedulers, students, and faculty currently using NetPoint as well as those new to NetPoint.

Register for free!

Keynote: SuperScheduling – Securing Project Completion Certainty 

SuperForecasting, hailed as “the most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow,” has inspired a breakthrough innovation in project controls. In this presentation, Dr. Gui introduces SuperScheduling – a project scheduling framework that relies on collaboratively built, intelligent schedules ― not as direct predictors of project completion, but as schedule inputs for Monte Carlo simulation where activity duration risk progressively reflects learned, statistical activity performance left of the data date. 

Keynote Speaker 

Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon, founder and CEO of PMA Consultants, is recognized as one of our nation’s foremost planning and scheduling subject matter experts. His executive and senior-level roles have included investor’s developer, program manager, construction manager, and EPC contractor planner/scheduler. Dr. Gui has continually pioneered innovations in project management throughout his career at PMA. He has written widely on the use of CPM in construction contracts as well as on schedule, delay, and acceleration analysis. His recent work with the Graphical Path Method is revolutionizing planning and scheduling at a level not seen since the advent of critical path methods. 

NetPoint & GPM – the Peak of Innovation 

Do your projects require maintaining multiple schedules for different levels of detail? Summarizing large and detailed schedules and keeping multiple schedules synchronized can be very challenging and time-consuming. In this session, we’ll present how we are leveraging NetPoint’s ability to create interactive and high-level schedules with new solutions we’re working on to solve core problems like these and advance our vision: reliable project schedules that everyone understands. You’ll also be able to vote on existing ideas, submit new suggestions, and be the first to see what’s coming next on our journey to transform planning and scheduling. 

Conference Sessions 

Subject matter experts will present practical, cutting-edge solutions in case studies for project management. Industry-recognized thought leaders will challenge some generally accepted practices and offer a framework and direction to move the industry forward. Current and prospective NetPoint users will be delighted to learn about the recent features, functionality, and cutting–edge strategies that leverage the power of GPM straight from leading practitioners and NetPoint developers. 

More reasons to attend:  

• Earn PDUs by attending
• Network with experts in the field of planning and scheduling
• Get in-depth NetPoint training directly from developers
• Get the most from new features and leverage GPM & NetPoint differences
• Present schedules that people can understand
• Communicate the schedule to gain plan buy-in

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Construction CPM Conference

January 19 – 22, 2020
Disney World – B Resort & Spa | Orlando, Florida
PMA will be at booth #21

Program Summary
Study and training in the Critical Path Method of planning and scheduling. Study and discuss the theory and practice of CPM with leading founders and prime movers of use of CPM, modern practitioners from around the world, and software developers for laptop to mainframe applications.

PMA will present:

Software Should Serve the Project
Have You Identified Every Risk?

Gui Ponce de Leon PhD, PE, PMP, LEED AP
Critical path method (CPM) schedules aside, projects finish late! Underestimating and favoring judgment over statistics from prior projects (planning fallacy), seeing the future in rosy terms (optimism bias), failing to involve stakeholders in scheduling the project (coordination neglect), which leads to overly detailed and unreliable CPM schedules (elaboration bias) that are unsuitable for use with stakeholders when recovery action is needed, and underassessing project completion risk (CPM algorithmic early bias) are notorious culprits. This keynote illustrates how the graphical path method of planning and scheduling assists schedulers in overcoming CPM’s algorithmic early bias contribution to the scheduling conundrum.

Real Time Coordination from USA to Australia
Two Continents – One Team

Tim Mather, PMP, CCMP, LPEC
We have set out the logic of what needs to be done but must now coordinate when is best to be done. This often requires coordination from teams in different locations, across town or across the globe. See how PMA NetPoint allows detail coordination, “what ifs,” and compromise in this live action session.

How to complete a 4 hour planning session in 40 minutes

Reniz Moosa, PMP
Analysis of a schedule has always been overwhelming for non-schedulers especially when the schedule has countless activities. This presentation showcases how to summarize large schedules involving 10,000+ activities from P6 or MS Project to effectively communicate schedule-related issues that can be readily understood by senior management and executives.

Learn more about this presentation: How to complete a 4 hour planning session in 40 minutes

Wave Transfer Planning with MS Project, P6, NetPoint, & NetRisk

Angel Arvelo, PMP, LEED AP & Blake Cuneo, PMP
Strategies to Transfer Manufacturing Operations to a Newly Built International Pharmaceutical Facility. Understanding the costs, benefits, and risks of multiple solutions requires complex schedule and cost modeling. The overall strategy requires identifying resource limitations, schedule risks and impacts, and the prioritization of needs early, and continuously throughout the dynamic project. The team used multiple scheduling tools to support the planning/schedule development phases such as MS Project, NetPoint and P6; actively monitor and control the overall master schedule for the program in P6; and conduct regular schedule risk assessment using NetRisk.

Learn more about this presentation: Wave Transfer Planning with MS Project, P6, NetPoint, & NetRisk

Learn more at: Construction CPM Conference

PMA Expertise
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