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8 Documentation of Project Management Policies and Procedures
Pages 74-80

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... It recommended that as a part of its project management system, DOE should issue fundamental policies, procedures, models, tools, techniques, and standards. The committee noted in its January 2001 letter report that DOE had begun development of more effective project management policies, procedures, models, tools, techniques, and standards (NRC, 20011.
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From page 75...
... 0413.3 should make it clear that there are no exceptions to the requirement that each project have a thorough, documented project plan to support every step in its approval process. As recommended in the Phase II report, to increase the uniformity of information across the complex, the policy should require that all projects apply an earned value management system (EVMS)
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From page 76...
... There should be a logical organization that would allow project managers to progress through the two documents referring from one to the other and at the conclusion to know what the department requires and what tools to use. The draft PPM provides an overview of the DOE project processes, including the deliverables at decision points and management responsibility and authority, but the detailed information is not organized according to a project delivery process.
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From page 77...
... Revisions to the draft PMP document should center on the characteristics of successful project performance, how it is achieved, and what constitutes a best project management practice for DOE (see Appendix C in the Phase II report (NRC, 1999~. DOE best practices should be documented to provide a how-to resource rather than a didactic educational resource.
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From page 78...
... Change Management The Phase II report included the recommendation that DOE establish a system for managing change that provides traceability and visibility for all baseline changes (NRC, 1999~. DOE 0413.3 defines levels of authority but defers definition of the thresholds for change control to the project execution plan (PEP)
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From page 79...
... FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Finding. The recommendations in the Phase II report to develop and publish a set of policies and procedures for management of DOE projects appear to have been addressed to some extent by the draft PPM and the draft PMP; however, the committee finds that there is a need for additional detail and clarity and elimination of discontinuities, gaps, overlaps, and repetitions.
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From page 80...
... Letter report, January. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
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