NASA Earned Value Management (EVM) Excellence Award

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Submission:

The complete award application must be submitted no later than November 13, 2009.

Narrative Response:

Your responses should explain measurable results as a product of utilizing EVM, such as improved levels of performance or service, frequency of EVM usage, identification and mitigation of potential issues utilizing EVM tools and techniques, documented improvements to organizational performance, or any combination of the aforementioned list of outcomes. The methods used to measure the results should also be specified. The project should further demonstrate how the results of utilizing EVM resulted in the best value for the government.

Please respond in the applicable fields and limit your responses to a maximum of 1000 characters per category. Your responses should address the following interrelated characteristics:

1) Visionary Leadership - Establishes clear direction and expectations for project team members.

2) Customer Driven Excellence - Engages customer in EVM reporting and design data products to enhance customer’s understanding of project cost and schedule status.

3) Innovation - Uses project data in inventive ways to more accuratley predict project performance.

4) Agility - Demonstrates capability to rapidly adapt the PMB and schedule in response to scope and resource adjustments. Provides project and program management with timely and reliable estimates and assessments of cost and schedule changes.

5) Focus on Results - Reflects technical performance in cost and schedule performance. Provides for forecasting capability through sufficient cost and schedule information.

6) Systems Approach to EVM and the Project - Effectively links project planning tools and data sources to efficiently provide reliable information. Uses EVMS processes to ensure the data produced is valid, accurate, and timely .

7) Focus on the future - Provides reliable lifecycle cost and schedule forecasts for each phase of major science and exploration spaceflight missions.

8) Other - Effectively links project planning tools and data sources to efficiently provide reliable information. Uses EVMS processes to ensure the data produced is valid, accurate, and timely.