Agile Software Development A popular iterative development method, Agile software development was made popular by the Manifesto for Agile Software Development 2 published in 2001 by Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. […]
Apportioned effort is a method of planning and measuring the earned value for effort that is related in direct proportion to measured effort and is not readily measurable or broken into discrete work packages. Inspection is the most typical use of this method. The amount of time for inspection is
Authorized Unpriced Work (AUW) is the effort for which definitized contract costs have not yet been negotiated, but for which the contractor has received written authorization from the Procuring Authority to proceed with the work. The contractor and/or the customer will typically reach an understanding of the need to change
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The creation, use and analysis of the earned value data element, BCWP, is what makes earned value management systems unique. BCWP is the value of completed work expressed in the same units of measurement as the budget value assigned to that work. This is equal to the sum of the
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Budgeted Cost of Work Remaining (BCWR) represents that portion of the budget for work not yet accomplished within a Control Account. It is the difference between the Budget at Completion (BAC) and the cumulative Budgeted Cost for Work Performed (BCWP), or BAC – BCWPCUM. The BCWR is used in data
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The government Contract Management Office (CMO) typically has the responsibility of overseeing the contractor’s management and execution processes during the life of the contract. This responsibility includes negotiating the terms and conditions of contracts, ensuring compliance with those terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes
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The Contract Performance Report (CPR) is a legacy contractually required contract performance report to a government customer as defined in Data Item Description (DID) DI-MGMT-81466A. This DID was superseded by the Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) DID in June 2012 (DI-MGMT-81861) and updated in September 2015 (DI-MGMT-81861A). The CPR DID
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Control Account Manager (CAM). Is a single manager within the organizational structure who has been given the authority and responsibility to manage one or more control accounts. A control account is the lowest level in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) / Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS) matrix, where all of the
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The term Earned Value is often used to describe both a management system and a data item produced from that system, the budget value for completed work (See Budgeted Cost for Work Performed — BCWP). An Earned Value Management System (EVMS) is designed to provide valid, timely, and auditable project
