Does EVMS serve any other purpose than to justify cost overruns?
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a complicated system for measuring baseline plans, actual costs, and technical progress on large, complex defense contracts. It evolved from […]
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Are we starting to see the backlash to OTAs?
Here’s a Q&A from a Mitchell Institute webinar discussing Other Transactions (OTAs): Audience question: There’s lots of new platforms being developed or being procured under […]
DoD invites setbacks by relying on sequential measures of progress
Systems engineering techniques themselves contribute to disaster because they all are paper techniques and there are only two instead of N dimensions available. What we […]
There’s no “value” in Earned Value Management
The problem here is that EVM is based on a detailed and accurate “plan” at the start of the initiative. And Agile avoids that detailed […]
Podcast: An aviator’s perspective on AlphaDogfight, NGAD, and beyond with Ryan Fishel
Ryan “Stinger” Fishel joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the future of the fighter aircraft community. Ryan is an F-15E pilot for […]
How do cost and mgmt. systems create biases against innovators in DOD?
Many causes could be cited for the institutional bias against innovators – or what could be termed more broadly as entrepreneurs – in the Department […]
EVMS is not well suited to an Agile environment
Problem: DoD established use of EVM as a requirement for periodically measuring linear programs with firm baselines established prior to starting development. EVM is not […]
Podcast: Andrew Hunter on software-defined, hardware-based adaptable systems
Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial group at CSIS, joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss a set of papers on adaptable systems, […]
Static program baselines and rethinking contract mgmt systems
Traditional acquisition metrics can be a major problem for adaptable systems. The Earned Value Management System (EVMS) is a common tool for measuring progress in […]
Problem areas of Earned Value Management
This is from a March 1969 article that discusses the Air Force’s implementation of the C/SCPS, which later became known as Earned Value Management: AFSC […]
Effects of performance management systems
The unfortunate results of imposing management control systems on contractors was that they then felt obligated to operate two systems in parallel. The contractors used […]