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Presentations & Publications
Year | Title | Author(s) | Summary | Link (Paper) | Link (Presentation) | Keyword(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2024 | Explosive Analysis | Ryan Webster, Robel Semunegus, Taylor Fountain, Daniel Larison, & Wendy Cassidy | This tool and the accompanying insights will enable senior leadership to negotiate with warfare centers and more easily measure performance. | Link | Link | Data Science, Parametric, Performance Management, Cost Tools, Regression |
2024 | Maintaining Baseline Control through a BCP | Dave Ingalls | This brief is focused on BCRs and BCPs, warning signs for loss of baseline control, best practices for change management during implementation, and strategies to avoid recurrence. | N/A | Link | Baseline Change Management, BCP, BCR, Rebaselining, Replanning, Reprogramming, OTB/OTS, Single Point Adjustment (SPA) |
2024 | Maximizing Analysis of Minimalized Datasets: Making the Most of a Data-Scarce Environment | Taylor Fountain & Obai Kamara | This topic will evaluate common methods to analyze minimalized datasets for developing defendable cost estimates and demonstrate the statistical impacts of their underlying assumptions. | Link | Link | Data-Driven, Methods, Monte Carlo, Parametrics, Regression, Uncertainty, Data Science |
2024 | Schedule Analysis Best Practices for Capital Projects | Dave Ingalls | This brief highlights best practices for the creation of a defendable schedule (IMS) baseline to enable actionable performance metrics during project execution. | N/A | Link | Schedule Health; Schedule Construction; Schedule Risk |
2024 | Schedule Risk at Early Acquisition | Gabriella Magasic & Sam Kitchin | This presentation will discuss how to address schedule risk in low maturity projects. | Link | Link | Program Management, Risk, Scheduling, Uncertainty, Analysis, SRA |
2024 | Surveillance Reviews vs. Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs) | Sam Kitchin, Dave Ingalls, & J. Greg Smith (Humphreys) | This presentation will compare and contrast these two types of review, demonstrating how and why they differ. Key terminology, stakeholders, artifacts, timeline, and intended results will be discussed. | N/A | Link | EVM Function Points, Performance Management, Program Management, Project Controls, Earned Value Management |
2024 | Triage the Sub-Projects:
Calculating and Applying Portfolio Contingency | Stephen Koellner & Nick Peeples | This topic will explore methods for calculating portfolio contingency, using a tangible example to demonstrate. | Link | Link | Budgeting, Cost Management, Decision Analysis, Program Management, Project Controls, Uncertainty |
2023 | Scheduling Agile-Fall: Best Practices | Max Pessel, Ryan Webster, & Sam Kitchin | This presentation will demonstrate best practices for schedule construction in an Agile environment and its implications on cost, delivery, and performance. | N/A | Link | Schedule Analysis |
2023 | Spread Too Thin: Interpreting Coefficient Variation in Monte-Carlo Based Cost Models | Stephen Koellner | Realistic cost uncertainty bounds are key for mitigating cost-growth risks, this topic will identify and counter causes of CV thinning in bottoms-up cost models. | Link | Link | Cost Analysis; Data Analysis |
2022 | Preparing for Software Negotiations: Adding Value Through the IGCE Process | Ryan Webster & Stephen Koellner | The brief outlines how Augur has supported vendor negotiations and implemented cost savings and avoidance. | N/A | Link | Cost Analysis; Performance Management |
2017 | Merge Bias and Correlation Applied to Schedule Risk Assessments (SRAs) | Noah Ashbaugh | The brief explains the basics of SRAs, merge bias and its impact on schedule planning, and how correlation can be used and its impact on SRA results. | N/A | Link | Schedule Analysis; Performance Management |
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