TheConstruction CPM Conferenceis less than two weeks away so now is the last chance we'll have to talk about what we will do there and for you to make last-minute plans to attend.

We hope to help practitioners of professional planning and scheduling perform better, faster and smarter. Our program invites vendors of CPM and supporting software to further educate and train our attendees in both advanced features of their current software tool and basic navigation of alternate tools. Our program invites experts to share nuances of the fundamental theories of CPM and basics of affiliated fields in cost, EVM, risk, BIM, and the productivity tools of linear, lean and other systems of scheduling.

1月10日至13日，加入我们在佛罗里达州迪斯尼世界的天鹅度假村，学习CPM，并学习组织的专业计划和日程安排的好处。我们计划在六个并发的曲目中进行20多个小时的继续教育，从“如何使用”软件产品到佛罗里达州律师协会为法律教育认可的“诉讼轨道”。与250名世界顶级CPM专家会面并交流。

虽然我们有小组成员将描述新的和破坏的发展，但我们的重点是传播知识。技术协会的其他会议，例如AACE (Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering International,) float new ideas for for consideration and for adoption after stringent peer review. About 50% of our conference attendees belong to one or more of such organizations.

我们都在努力教和培训与会者和成员，以成为更好的计划者和计划者。

我们缺少的是一个组织，教导雇主和受众雇主的雇主我们所做的工作以及如何更好地为最终用户服务。我们缺少的是一个组织，告知那些最需要我们帮助的人，甚至可能有可能的帮助。

考虑普通的贷方官员审查开发人员对大型复杂项目的建议。

电子表格的预计成本以及可能的投资回报率(18luck.cubreturn on investment) are raked with a fine-toothed comb. Sole-source procurement is frowned upon and the developer must list multiple vendors to prove viability should the lowest bid be reneged on. And then there is the element of time. The project is based on timely return on investment. The entire enterprise may ride on being first to market or meeting a stipulated deadline. Of course the lender will accept the verbal promises of the developer.

Maybe the lender will require a bar-chart drawn with a crayon or similar analytical assurance.

What our industry needs is someone to teach these loan officers that they can demand and get further assurances of timely completion, including analyses indicating the likelihood of on-time, late by one month, late by three months and so forth. But even the largest consultancy firm has neither the resources nor the potential return on such investment to warrant the promotion involved.

Who does? Perhaps we should ask the software industries that have acquired our CPM scheduling technologies and already have a foothold in the back office operations of the lenders to lead this endeavor?

让我们在本月晚些时候在佛罗里达谈谈。希望在那里见到你。