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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published the exposure draft of the GAO Schedule Assessment Guide, Best Practices for Project Schedules. This is a companion to the GAO Cost Estimating Guide and will be used as both a best practices guide for scheduling across agencies, as well as a tool for GAO auditors to use to independently assess the adequacy and effectiveness of project schedules.

Pinnacle has integrated Deltek Cobra and MS Project or MS Project Server for many US Government Agencies and Suppliers.

The Program Management Systems Committee (PMSC) of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) agreed last fall to conduct a series of Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) workshops designed to increase consistency of practices and transparency of objectives and constraints, as well as reduce cycle time associated with decision making and problem resolution. 

Pinnacle has worked across many industries to implement Earned Value Management (EVM). One trend we are seeing in the Private Sector is the use of EVM to maximize profit on Fixed Price contracts.

We recently had a prospect that asked us to build a Roadmap for an Enterprise Project Management and an Earned Value Management system. They have a mix of private sector work and also government work requiring EVMS.  At the CFO, COO level they were convinced that knew what they needed.

Deltek wInsight is the market leader for Earned Value Management System (EVMS) data analysis, reporting and business intelligence. It provides a complete set of EVM charts and reports that can be used interactively, included in presentations or output as hardcopy.

As we've said before, developing a proposal for a US Government Agency can be a very dynamic and often a chaotic process. In the rush to get the proposal out the door the basic planning processes are often forgotten.