Introduction of Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Method (SCRAM)

1.47  To foster and encourage schedule performance improvement across Defence and industry the DMO has led the development of a Schedule Management capability model and associated assessment methodology. Collectively, the process is known as the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Method (SCRAM).

1.48  The SCRAM is an approach for identifying risks to compliance with program schedule, i.e. SCRAM can be used for the assessment and remediation of issues generating schedule risk. SCRAM can also be used:

●  By organisations to construct a schedule that maximises the likelihood of schedule compliance.

●  To ensure common risks are addressed before the project schedule is baselined at the commencement of a project.

●  To monitor project status, performed either ad hoc or to support appropriate milestone reviews.

●  To diagnose challenged projects, to assess the likelihood of schedule compliance, root cause of schedule slippage and recommend remediation of root causes.

1.49  SCRAM is based on an ISO 15504 (Assessment Framework Standard) compliant Process Reference and Assessment Models and is a model of Schedule Management best practice, structured using a 'cause and effect' architecture to facilitate the identification of root cause of schedule slippage, as shown in figure 1.6.

Figure 1.6 - SCRAM PR/AM Model Architecture

1.50  The audience for the model includes customer and contractor project managers, project schedulers, hardware and system/software engineers, SCRAM assessment team members, educators and anyone interested in achieving project schedule compliance.

1.51  To encourage industry wide use of Schedule Management best practices and to foster improvements to the DMO Process Reference and Assessment models through wider use and feedback from users, the model has been released by the DMO into the Public domain88.

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88  Further information on SCRAM and access to SCRAM products can be obtained from the website: http://scramsite.org