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Government agencies are increasingly requiring Contractors to implement EVM Systems, but often the Contractors don’t have the experience to get the job done. Pinnacle’s proven approach to people, processes and tools ensures a successful and sustainable EVM Systems implementation. 

Is your Project Management Office (PMO) an effective and strategic entity that helps project managers across the organization? Traditionally, PMOs have been departmentally based and effective only within their own departments or silos of responsibility. 

The new Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) data item description, DI-MGMT-81861, that combines the existing Contract Performance Report (CPR) and the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) into a single report package, has now been officially released and will be employed on future contracts let in response to solicitations and requests for proposals issued after 1 July 2012. 

A draft of this document was issued last fall and comments were solicited. Pinnacle consultants provided detailed comments and recommendations. 

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.