Building, deploying, and executing an IMP/IMS requires a change in the conventional paradigm of project planning and controls and the management processes. This chain starts by measuring progress as the completion of accomplishment criteria in the fulfillment of significant accomplishments. This progress is described through the assessment of physical percent complete rather than measuring progress through the passage of time and consumption of resources.
- A Gentle Introduction to Integrated Master Planning - Traditional project management starts with identifying the tasks needed to deliver the solution. Integrated Master Planning starts by defining what “done” looks like, how we would recognize “done” when we encounter it, and what effort is needed to deliver “done." By defining accomplishments and criteria, the effort needed to deliver can be identified.
- A Summary of the IMP / IMS Process Flow - Guided by the Capabilities-Based Plan, the WBS, OBS, and RAM are the basis of the Integrated Master Plan.
- Integrated Master Plan Methodology - The Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) are important tools that provide significant assistance in planning and scheduling work efforts.
- IMP / IMS Step by Step - Building the Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) from Proposal and Successful Execution.
- An Introduction to IMP/IMS (Narrated) - planning projects with tasks contained in the schedule fails to define what done looks like in units of increasing effectiveness and performance of the outcomes. The Integrated Master Plan defines the increasing maturity of the program.
- Integrated Master Plan Methodology - the IMP/IMS provides significant assistance in planning and scheduling work efforts.
- The Five + One easy Steps to an Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule
- Development of an Integrated Master Plan - For the complex, system of systems acquisition programs, scheduling starts with an Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and only then moves to the development of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Integrated Master Plan Development - Building the IMP as the basis of a credible Integrated Master Schedule.
- A Gentle Introduction to IMP/IMS - In 2003, the US Government revised its acquisition policies with a procurement strategy focused on process improvement and acquisition reform implemented by performance-based management.
- Key to Integrated Master Plan Notation - Vertical and Horizontal Connectivity
- From WBS to Integrated Master Schedule - a Step by Step Guide to Increasing the Probability of Program Success starts with the WBS, developing the Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, risk adjusting the IMS, and measuring progress to plan in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.
- Integrated Master Plan - The Foundation for Program Success - starting with the Integrated Master Plan provides clear and concise descriptions of what "done" looks like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.
- Six ½ Day Session on the Road to Becoming a CAM
- The Five + One Easy Steps to an Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule
- Integrated Master Plan / Integrated Master Schedule in a Nutshell - describing the measures of increasing maturity and the activities needed to produce this maturity provides measures of physical percent complete in units meaningful to the decision-makers
- IMP/IMS Overview - of the Hubble Space Telescope
- Integrated Master Schedule Data Gathering Processes - Building the IMP and IMS starts with gathering the Tasks that define the Accomplishment Criteria.
- Key to IMP Notation - Vertical and Horizontal Connectivity
- IMP as the Definition of Done, Robin Pulverenti and Glen Alleman, IPMW 2017.
