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Article Scheduling, Cost Management, Aerospace & Defense March 2010

Project Management Journal

Causal inferences on the cost overruns and schedule delays of large-scale U.S. federal defense and intelligence acquisition programs

By Meier, Steven R. A study was undertaken to understand why cost overruns and schedule delays have occurred and continue to occur on large-scale U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community programs. Analysis…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Cost Management, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 19 July 2006

Phase earned value analysis

By Bower, Douglas C. In the search to find methods to improve project performance, an increasing number of organizations--mostly those in the aerospace and defense industries--have adopted earned value management (EVM).…

Article Requirements Management, Scheduling, Cost Management, Aerospace & Defense September 1994

Project Management Journal

A review of cost/schedule control systems criteria literature

By Christensen, David S. The United States Department of Defense has required that contractors' management control systems comply with Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria (C/SCSC) since 1967.The two main objectives of…

Article Scheduling, Cost Management, Aerospace & Defense October 1993

PM Network

Some thoughts on C/SCSC and the current state of project management tools

By Feldman, Robert E. Over the past thirty years, organizations and project professionals have continuously expanded their use of cost/schedule control systems criteria (C/SCSC). This article describes the author's…

Article Quality Management, Scheduling, Cost Management, Aerospace & Defense 1 January 1992

PM Network

Excellence in cost, schedule and quality performance

By Dettbarn, Albert A. | Little, Richard E. | McMullan, A. Dale This article describes GTE's Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) system, a $4.2 billion project that upgraded and integrated the United States Army's prodigious mobile communications systems, and…

Article Scheduling, Cost Management, Aerospace & Defense March 1979

Project Management Quarterly

Cost/schedule performance measurement without work packages

By Turf, Larry To meet the United States Department of Defense's new performance measurements, using its Cost/Schedule Control System (C/SCSC), organizations must plan detailed work packages, obtaining the…