At NDIA’s Fall 2026 IPMD Forum, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) David Abba’s keynote made a simple case: insight over compliance. forProject’s Chet Farmer on why earned value works best when the mission stays in view.
Chet Farmer
Chet Farmer is Vice President of Technical Services at forProject Technology, where he leads implementations and customer support. He joined forProject shortly after its founding in 2007, bringing a background in software development and consulting. Chet specializes in EVMS implementation, variance analysis, advanced scheduling and migrating programs from legacy systems into EVMS forProject.
At the 2026 Empower Users’ Group Workshop, AI was the big theme. forProject’s Chet Farmer on the standout idea: use AI to check the variance narrative against project data, not to write it.