The Schedule Assessment Guide from GAO (General Accountability Office) in USA - article

The Schedule Assessment Guide from GAO (General Accountability Office) in USA - article

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The GAO has published its Schedule Assessment Guide. In this article, Eric explores what is in this guide and what impact it will have. Considering that US Government has the largest budget for projects and most companies sell directly or indirectly to the US Government, Eric expects this impact to be significant. So, what is in it? The guide states clearly that project schedules should have activities that create the deliverables and that program schedules should be resource-loaded and workload-leveled. Eric explains what this means in terms of what you need to know and do in Microsoft Project:
1. You need to list all resources required in your project, at least all generic resources (roles).
2. Insert activities below each deliverable in your project schedule that create the deliverable.
3. You need to estimate the effort on each activity instead of the duration. ("effort-based scheduling”)
4. Then you need to assign resources to all activities that now have an effort estimate.
5. You need to let your scheduling application calculate the durations of the activities:
Duration = Work / Units of Resources.
6. Finally, you need to maintain the Work estimates and the Duration values such that they always reflect the latest and greatest you know about your project.