Schedule Topics

SmartPM’s Schedule Quality Index grade assessment is guided by the United States Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) 14-point schedule assessment guideline. The DCMA guideline was developed by the Department of Defense to evaluate the enormous volume of contracts and schedules they were tasked with managing. Essentially, it is evaluating whether a schedule is well-built and whether it adheres to a set of best practices considered important to the success and manageability of a project. These best practices are broken down into a list of 14 checks