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Essential Views of Project and Program Success

This presentation was for a multi-day workshop on applying the Essential Views needed to increase the probability of program success, developed for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a nonprofit corporation operating three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) that provide objective, high-quality analysis on U.S. security and science policy challenges.

Its core mission is to assist the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies by providing evidence-based research, particularly in areas requiring deep scientific, technical, and operational expertise.

• Tables of Contents

• Introduction

• The Concept of Essential Views

• TSAS Work Breakdown Structure

• Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

• Building a Credible Integrated Master Planning

• 6 Steps to the Integrated Master Plan Development

• Nuances of These Steps

• Connecting the IMP to the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)

• First Pass at Building the Integrated Master Plan

• Developing IMS from the IMP

• Managing in the Presence of Uncertainty