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The NDIA Planning & Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG) has included 8 Generally Accepted Scheduling Practices, also known as GASP.   The practices outline ways of building, maintaining and managing project schedules effectively.  

1. Complete

"The schedule captures the entire, discrete, authorized project effort from start through completion."

Use Fuse's schedule characteristics and quality metrics to trace planned work from start to finish, identifying missing logic or other scheduling errors. 

2. Traceable

"The schedule logic is horizontally and vertically integrated with cross-references to key documents & tools."

Use the Fuse logic analyzer to analyze logic ties and identify redundancies, circular links, out-of-sequence activities, open starts & finishes, and other logic complexities.  

3. Transparent

"The schedule provides visibility to assure it is complete, traceable, has documented assumptions, & provides full disclosure of program status & forecast."

Use Fuse metrics to compare baseline planing to actual progress and identify areas of non-compliance.  Get an accurate look at overall status as well as forecasted trending. 

4. Statused

"The schedule has accurate progress through the status date."

Bring in status updates to the Fuse forensic analyzer to compare variances and track performance trending.  

5. Predictive

"The schedule provides meaningful critical paths & accurate forecasts for remaining work through program completion."

Quickly drill down to activities on the critical path and assess them for long durations, open ends, or other scheduling flaws.  Get a more accurate forecast by first assessing the quality of the plan.  

6. Usable

"The schedule is an indispensable tool for timely & effective management decisions & actions."

With advanced reporting options such as the Fuse dashboard, tracking & reporting performance is quick and painless using Fuse.  Report on the project as a whole or on specific groupings such as WBS, contractor, location, or CAM. 

7. Resourced

"The schedule aligns with actual & projected resource availability."

Track both cost performance and resource performance through Fuse.  Identify areas of work or cost overruns, calculate the amount overrun, or track allocation of costs and resource time through out the project plan. 

8. Controlled

"The schedule is built, baselined, & maintained using a stable, repeatable & documented process."

Because the Fuse engine integrates with all scheduling, cost management, EV, and risk tools on the market it is easy to analyze the entire project using 1 tool.  This allows for increased confidence in alignment of project components.  Rather than relying on spreadsheets and manual calculations, Fuse automates the process making it both repeatable and reliable.