• General discussion of program schedules.
• Lists the requirement for all levels of schedules to be integrated.
• Discusses the timing of detailed planning vice planning packages.

Project Management Institute (PMI), Practice Standard for Scheduling 2nd Edition

2011

• Defines a schedule development process.
• Contains guidelines for granularity.
• Defines schedule maintenance process.
• Detailed list of schedule components.
• Comprehensive list of scheduling terms and definitions.

Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) Scheduling Guide for Program Managers

October 2001

• General primer on scheduling in DoD environment written for Program Managers.
• Discusses schedule types, levels of schedules, and scheduling theory.
• Emphasizes tying risk to schedule.
• Discusses resource constrained scheduling and schedule crashing.
• Discusses production scheduling and line of balance.
• Direct Reference: DsmcSchedulingGuide.pdf

Bowman Interpretive Guide, Air Force Institute of Technology

September 1991

• Discusses organizing, planning, budgeting, accounting, analyzing, and revising schedules.
• Direct Reference: BowmanGuideAFIT.pdf

ASC Comptroller Handbook

August 1999

• Defines schedule concepts, formats, and displays.
• Details how to develop, manage, and evaluate schedules.
• Details how to conduct a schedule risk assessment.
• Discusses software and automation considerations.
• Discusses how to identify and evaluate programmatic risk.
• Discusses source selection, cost and schedule data center, and schedule training courses.

• Tip sheet containing key scheduling concepts, acronyms, definitions, formulas, and other information.
• Direct Reference: DauGoldGardA.pdf & DauGoldGardB.pdf

Air Force Instruction 63-101

07 March 2013

• Establishes requirement for an IMS to be maintained by the government PM and contain the supplier's IMS.
• Requires Government PM to perform recurring analysis of contractor schedules.
• Discusses System Engineering detail required in IMS.
• Direct Reference: AfInstructions63-101.pdf

Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), Integrated Master Schedule Assessment Guide, Rev 7

11 December 2009

• Provides 15 or more mechanical checks on the wellness of an IMS.
• Provides two pages of general guidance for IMS.
• Identifies key checks that will be performed by DCMA during reviews.

Defense Acquisition Guidebook

1 November 2012

• Requires Acquisition Strategy to include highlights from IMS.
• Emphasizes that IMS should be event based.
• Requires configuration control of the IMS as part of technical baseline configuration control.
• Requires integration of SEP and IMS.
• Requires WBS as predecessor to IMS development.
• Recommends cross-reference of CTP and TPM in IMS.
• Direct Reference: DefenseAcquisitionGuide.pdf 

Defense Acquisition Program Support Methodology

9 January 2009

• Stresses early industry involvement in program schedule development.
• Emphasizes risk handling activities be included in IMS.
• Discusses schedule reserve or schedule margin.
• Contains IMS attribute list and IMS relationship to EVMS chart.
• Provides focus questions for IMS evaluation.
• Direct Reference: Def.AquisitionProgram.pdf

Depicting Schedule Margin in Integrated Master Schedules

May 2009

• NDIA white paper on techniques to depict schedule margin in IMS.
• Direct Reference: DepictingSched.MarginIMS.pdf

Data Item Description (DiD), DI-MGMT-81650, Integrated Master Schedule

30 May 2005

• The DID required to be placed on EVMS applicable contracts.
• Identifies requirement for performance measurement and SRA.
• Direct Reference: DI-MGMT-81650IMS.pdf

Department of Defense (DoD) Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule Preparation and Use Guide

21 October 2005

• Provides guidance to government for IMS language in RFP.
• Recommends duplicating the PE, SA, and AC from the IMP into the IMS.
• Contains generic steps for IMS preparation.
• Contains discussion of SRA.
• Contains procedures to evaluate IMS submitted with proposal.
• Direct Reference: IMP/IMSprep&guide.pdf

Department of Defense (DoD) Earned Value Management Implementation Guide

October 2006

• Contains tailoring guidance for IMS CDRL.
• Recommends contract have procedures and timeline for rolling-wave planning.
• Discusses OTS.
• Direct Reference: DodEVMIG.pdf

Government Accountability Office (GAO) Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide

March 2009

• Stresses the importance of WBS in IMS development.
• Recommends WBS be outline for IMS.
• Direct Reference: GaoCostEstAssessmentGuide.pdf

May 2012

•  This schedule guide is a companion to the Cost Guide. 
• A reliable schedule can contribute to an understanding of the cost impact if the program does not finish on time. 
• A schedule risk analysis allows for program management to account for the cost effects of schedule slippage when developing the life-cycle cost estimate.
• A cost estimate cannot be considered credible if it does not account for the cost effects of schedule slippage.
• Direct Reference: GAOScheduleAssessmentGuide.pdf

Navy CEVM Analysis Toolkit

August 2008

• Contains steps for IMS analysis.
• Contains NAVAIR 11 Point Program Schedule Assessment Methodology.
• Contains NAVAIR SRA process.
• Direct Reference: NavyCevmToolkit.pdf

NASA Schedule Management Handbook

January 2010

• Recommends schedule management plan for each project.
• Contains best practices for scheduling.
• Lists project documentation needed to build an IMS.
• Contains detailed procedures for resource loaded schedules.
• Contains schedule health metrics.
• Contains Joint Confidence Level techniques.
• Direct Reference: NasaSchedMngemntHandbook.pdf

National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Program Management Systems Committee (PMSC), EVMS Intent Guide

June 2009

• Shows attributes of IMS.
• Shows objective evidence of IMS complying with EVMS guidelines.
• Shows the contribution of the IMS to multiple EVMS guidelines.
• Direct Reference: NdiaPmsEvmsIntentGuide.pdf

• Addresses preparation of IMS to establish baseline.
• Addresses schedule maintenance.
• Addresses baseline change procedures.

• Contractors often have separate scheduling document to standardize their scheduling practices.
• Contractors may have program unique scheduling instructions where the contract or unusual situations establish more rigorous requirements than in the EVMS Description or contractor scheduling practices.

• Identifies format and required content for CPR Formats 1-5 (WBS, OBS, Baseline, Staffing, Explanations and Problem Analyses).
• Direct Reference: DI-MGMT-81466CRP.pdf

• The DID required to be placed on contracts over 6 months in duration.
• Identifies requirement for supplying funding data about defense contracts to Program Managers.
• Direct Reference: DI-MGMT-81468CFSR.pdf

Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES) Review Trip Wires

7 November 2006

• Gives background on DAES Trip Wires Initiative.
• Details trip wire metrics such as BEI, CPLI, SPI, CPI, TCPI, PMB Revisions, and Contract Mods.
• Direct Reference: OsdAt&lDaesReviewTripWires.pdf

Defense Acquisition University (DAU) EVM BCF-262 "White Card" Side A, & Side B

April 2008

• Tip sheet containing a NDIA/ANSI guideline matrix relating them to the organizing, scheduling, work / budget authorization, accounting, indirect management, managerial analysis, change incorporation, material management, and subcontract management processes.
• Direct Reference: DauEvmBcf262WhiteCardSideA.pdf DauEvmBcf262WhiteCardSideB.pdf

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) IMS Guidebook

February 2010

• Discusses basic IMS principles, IMS planning, building and managing to an IMS, best practices, metrics, IMS-related training, and contract considerations.
• Contains an IMS FAQ.
• Direct Reference: NavairImsGuidebook.pdf