SCRAM Review Process

SCRAM has seven processes:

1. Review Preparation: Formation of the review team with key people, creation of an review schedule and SCRAM training.

2. Project Awareness: Brief program on how SCRAM works and the review schedule, receive a briefing from the program on current status and review program documentation

3. Project Risk/Issue Identification: Conduct interview with management and technical leads, review program artifacts and review basis of estimates for staffing and schedule.

4. Project Schedule Validation: Check the schedule alignment in the work breakdown structure, identify and evaluation critical and near-critical path tasks, and check the schedule for correctness and completeness.

5. Data Consolidation and Validation: Review interview notes and program artifacts and tag information to the cause and effect model.

6. Schedule Confidence Risk Analysis: Give a quantitative risk rating to tasks on the critical and near-critical path and perform a Monte Carlo analysis on the schedule.

7. Observation and Reporting: Record observations, findings and recommendations, prepare and deliver out-brief, and prepare and deliver review report to sponsor.