Deltek Project Portfolio Management at Deltek ProjectCon 2024

Mark your calendars, November 12-14, for the upcoming Deltek ProjectCon user conference – the ultimate gathering for project-based businesses. As a user of Deltek PPM, you cannot afford to miss this event! This year's conference is the largest of its kind, where hundreds fellow Deltek PPM users will converge for three days filled with content, valuable connections, and heartfelt customer appreciation.

As a Deltek user, you won't want to miss this event! Whether you have attended in the past or this is your first time, register today and join us November 12-14 in the Washington, D.C. area.

The Deltek PPM track focuses on our industry-leading earned value management solutions and how they integrate to offer the most robust cost, schedule, and risk management available. We will also explore how Deltek Dela™ (an AI-powered intelligent business companion) is being incorporated to provide intelligence, assistance and automation to PPM users. Through our engaging sessions, you’ll gain insight into the upcoming product roadmap, learn best practices from the experts, hear tips and tricks from other users and see how to make Deltek PPM work better for you.

Five Reasons PPM Customers Can’t Miss Deltek ProjectCon 2024

Strengthen Your PPM Product Knowledge

The number one reason people attend Deltek ProjectCon year after year is for the product sessions—and this year won’t disappoint. Deltek PPM users will gain insight into the upcoming product roadmap, learn best practices from the experts, hear tips and tricks from other users and see how to make PPM work better for you.

There are two sub-tracks for PPM users focused on your different roles, helping you access the right content for your area of the business. This year's sub-tracks are cost management and schedule and risk management, where you’ll have the opportunity to interact with speakers in more than 20 PPM-specific sessions. You will also have the opportunity to hear from Deltek Partners on how they can help improve your overall experience with PPM. Here are some sessions you won’t want to miss:

All PPM users should attend the PPM Product Kick-off (PPM-KO) where my product management team and I will get you excited about the future of PPM with a glimpse into the roadmap and much more. Our PPM Customer Panel (PPM-20) is also highly recommended and popular.

Below is a sample list of sessions available for each sub-track. To view the complete list of sessions relevant to your role, view the full session catalog.

PPM Cost Management
There are plenty of sessions within the Cost Management sub-track to help teams manage project performance. In addition to the list of sessions below, you can explore the sample conference agenda created specifically for earned value management professionals.

• DCMA Independent Insight and Earned Value Management Program Surveillance and Analysis (PPM-06)
• Preparing DOE PARS JSON Submittals with Deltek Cobra (PPM-05)
• A Day in the Life of a Project Change (PPM-04)
• Case Study: How Deltek Cobra Supports the Network Rail TRU Program (PPM-07)
• And much more!

PPM Schedule and Risk Management
The following is a sample of sessions specifically to help schedulers and risk managers better manage projects. For more tailored content catered to this role, view this sample agenda.

• How Integrated is Your Integrated Master Schedule? (PPM-10)
• A Day in the Life of a Risk (PPM-03)
• Case Study: How a $4+ Billion Infrastructure Company Builds Smarter with Deltek Acumen (PPM-18)
• And much more!

Learn How Deltek is Committed to Your Project Management Success

Expand your knowledge beyond PPM and learn how Deltek is committed to your overall business success. The Customer Experience (CX) track includes sessions focused on how Deltek can help invigorate and protect your business. In this track, some of the key sessions include:

• General Session: Deltek Technology & Innovation (CX-02)
• Transforming Deltek Training: What’s New and What’s Next (CX-05)
• And more!

Network with Other PPM Users

As a Deltek user, one of the many benefits is that you have a community of users you can connect with to answer questions, join user groups and share best practices for leveraging your PPM solution. Leverage onsite Deltek Project Nation Braindates (coming soon!) – topic-driven conversations that can be one-on-one or in a small group to brainstorm, solve challenges or share experiences with PPM. The XPO, sit-down meals and the customer appreciation event also are a great opportunity to interact with other users.

Uncover Complementary PPM Solutions

While you are at Deltek ProjectCon, we encourage you to check out our other project-based solutions that can help your company power your project success. You can join sessions or visit the XPO to learn about solutions like Deltek Costpoint, Deltek TIP Technologies, and Deltek GovWin IQ, or our newest acquisition, ProPricer and more!

Just filter the session catalog by role or product to learn more about how these solutions can extend your PPM capabilities and unlock new possibilities for your projects and business growth. You can also visit the XPO at Deltek ProjectCon to ask questions about these solutions.

Explore Additional Learning and Networking Opportunities

Attendees can schedule time to speak one-on-one in a Meet the Expert appointment. Additionally, there will be lots of networking and exploration opportunities available in the XPO, where attendees can learn about Deltek’s full suite of products, discover our sponsoring partners’ products and services, engage with our Deltek experts and explore new product concepts in the UX Lab.

We look forward to your joining us near Washington D.C. for the largest gathering of project-based professionals in November! Register today, and don’t forget to invite your teams, colleagues and user groups to experience all that Deltek ProjectCon 2024 has to offer!