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Government guidance · Dated market record

Change record: GAO publishes the Schedule Assessment Guide

GAO published GAO-16-89G with ten best practices for reliable project schedules.

Official government guidance

What changed

GAO published GAO-16-89G with ten best practices for reliable project schedules.

This entry preserves the event separately from maintained provider and capability conclusions. A rule, announcement, release, enforcement record, or market transaction can be material before enough evidence exists to revise a company classification or comparison.

Operating consequence

The event changes the maintained standards, product, portfolio, or market context. Buyers should update affected records while keeping official announcements separate from configured behavior, project adoption, integration, implementation, and outcome evidence.

Teams should identify which records, populations, systems, transactions, jurisdictions, products, or decisions fall within the change. Then assign an accountable owner, response date, evidence requirement, and disposition. Broad reassessment is not always necessary, but a material event deserves a documented decision.

Capabilities to revisit

CPM Schedule Planning And Update Workflow

Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for CPM schedule planning and update workflow.

Project Risk Issue Contingency And Exposure Analysis

Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for project risk issue contingency and exposure analysis.

Cross-Project Analytics And Benchmark Reporting

Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for cross-project analytics and benchmark reporting.

Questions for operating teams

  • Which exact population and effective date does the source establish?
  • Does the change alter authority, policy, content, workflow, integration, evidence, or only market positioning?
  • What customer-controlled interpretation, configuration, or process remains outside a provider's responsibility?
  • What test case would show whether the operational consequence has reached production?
  • What record will close, defer, or supersede this review?

Evidence boundary

The source class is Official government guidance. It establishes only the statements supported by the linked record and does not, by itself, establish implementation depth, market-wide availability, transaction-specific applicability, independent efficacy, or a universal buyer conclusion.