EVM Europe 2013: Integrated Project Management and Control

Celebrating 5 years of EVM Europe

The conference schedule of EVM Europe 2013 is now available and online. Below you find the presentations titles and speakers. We are proud to mention that our Ghent University students of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration will present their work - often carried out in collaboration with our PhD students and Belgian companies - in the academic track. Join us! Registrations are still open!

Novel ideas (academic track)

• Jeroen Colin & Mario Vanhoucke: “Earned Value for Buffer Management: A Hybrid Project Control Procedure”
• Frederick Dobbelaere & Eline Van Lombeek: “A Study Concerning Corrective Actions in Project Control”
• Miguel Angel Guerrero Lazaro, Yolanda Villacampa & Andrés Montoyo: “Relationships between Time, Cost and Construction Speed in Building Projects“
• Andreas Verleysen & Sam Clauwaert: “The Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Project Outcome Using EVM“
• Arne De Jongh: “Analysis of the Performance of the Schedule Control Index by Use of Monte Carlo Simulation”
• Mathieu Wauters & Mario Vanhoucke: “An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Project Duration Forecasting”
• Louis-Philippe Kerkhove & Mario Vanhoucke: “The Impact of Multi-dimensional Incentive Contracts on Strategy for Project Owners and Subcontractors”
• Ruben De Schrijver: “Using the P-factor to Monitor Concurrent Engineering Projects with a Variable Change of Rework”
• Joost Arnoudt & Giel-Jan Triest: “Early-stage Cost Estimation of Offshore Wind Farm Projects using Monte Carlo Simulation”
• Pieter Beeckman & Kenny Vanleeuwen: “An Accuracy Study and Improvement of a Time-dependent Earned Value Model using Monte Carlo Simulation” (Winners of the ArcelorMittal Award 2013)
• Jean Pierre Tollenboom : “Tasks versus Processes when Tracking Project Progress”

Best practices (practitioner track)

• Paul Giammalvo: “Practical Look at How Private Sector Entrepreneurial Contractors Use Earned Value“
• Walt Lipke: “Measurement – Who Needs It?“
• Mathieu Baudin, Pierre Bonnal & Jean-Michel Ruiz: “Project Planning and Scheduling 2.0: How to Plan to Ease Collaborative Project Control“
• Mojtaba Zarei-Kesheh: “The Blind Spots in Earned Value Management“
• Mark Phillips: “The Cost of Conflict on Projects and How People’s Behavior Drives Project Performance”
• Sean Alexander: “What Does Done Mean?“
• Jean Pierre Tollenboom: “Lessons from a Post Mortem Analysis on a Recent Turn Around”
• Marco Buijnsters & Patrick Schuckmann: “An Investigation into the Maturity of Integrated Project Controls”
• Sean Alexander: “Budgets versus Funds: Really Understanding the Difference”
• Sebastian Burgers: “Project Under Control – What about the Benefits?”
• Jordy Batselier, Livine Maerschalk, Annelies Troch, Pieter Van Schoors & Mario Vanhoucke: “Classification of Risk Analysis and Project Control Performance on Empirical Project Data”

Keynote speakers

• Stephan Vandevoorde: “Time Forecasting using Earned Schedule - The European Experience (with the help of the US)”
• Gary Troop: “Earned Value and Project Performance Management - The International Perspective”
• Walt Lipke: “Ten Years after Earned Schedule - The American Experience (with the help of Europe)”