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Criteria Purposes:

The Criteria have three important roles in strengthening the proper utilization of EVM at NASA:

- To help improve organizational performance practices, capabilities, and results in EVM
- To facilitate communication and sharing of best practices information
- To serve as a working tool for understanding and managing performance and for guiding organizational planning and opportunities for learning

Eligibility Criteria:

All NASA projects that actively use EVM concepts and techniques in the management of their in-house and/or contracted activities are eligible and encouraged to apply for this award. The NASA EVM Excellence Award is not intended for contractors.

Selection Criteria:

The eligible project will complete an application detailing how the award criteria characteristics are met. The document 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 forecasting 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.

Your responses should address the following interrelated characteristics:

EVM Award Criteria
EVM Award Criteria Characterisitics
1) Visionary Leadership - Establish clear direction and expectations for project team members

2) Customer Driven Excellence - Customer is engaged in EVM reporting and data products are designed to enhance customer’s understanding of project cost and schedule status
- Cost, schedule, and technical performance clearly linked to State of the Agency criteria if applicable

3) Innovation - Innovative uses of project data to more accurately predict project performance

4) Agility - Capability to rapidly adapt Perfromance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and schedule in response to changes
- Provide project and program management with timely and reliable estimates and assessments of cost and schedule changes

5) Focus on Results - Technical performance reflected in cost and schedule performance
- Cost and schedule information adequate for decision making as confirmed by results of estimates developed to support changes

6) Systems Approach to EVM and the Project - Effective linking of project planning tools and data sources to efficiently provide reliable information
7) Focus on the Future - Provide reliable lifecycle cost and schedule forecasts associated with each phase for major science and exploration spaceflight missions in formulation and development


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