GAO Knowledge Points

 

A valuable GAO document discusses knowledge points.. the certainty that systems are appropriate. “Because military programs tend to start product development with more unknowns, it takes them additional time, sometimes until well after production begins, to actually discover and capture enough solid information to attain full product knowledge and thereby virtually eliminate risk.”

Knowledge Point 1: Requirements and Technological Capability Are Matched

Knowledge Point 2: Knowledge That Design Will Work as Required

Knowledge Point 3: Knowledge that the design can be produced within cost, schedule and quality targets.

Source: GAO/NSIAD-98-56 Best Practices.

Using SEER for Software, SEER for Hardware and SEER for IT’s risk / uncertainty capabilities the range of cost, schedule and quality can be established early, even in programs with significant unknown unknowns. Using a higher probability has more certainty that that cost / schedule will not be exceeded.

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