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[Gustaaf Brooijmans <gusbroo AT nevis.columbia.edu>]

Hi Tom,

> Can I ask how the NSF wants to use this information?  They would like to 
> go through each variance report, by month, and see how COVID accruals 
> track?  What accuracy are they looking for here?

NSF already goes through each variance report by month.

Variance and corrective action tracking is part of the normal EVMS 
process.  As far as COVID accruals go, if we ever want to do the COVID 
rebaseline, we better be able to explain the story in detail.  I expect 
we'll end up writing "COVID BOEs" for all deliverables.


> Also, for task dependencies - we should go through every task in the RLS 
> (current to future) and somehow mark how dependent they are on external 
> institutions,etc.?  Is this for a simulation?

Yes.  But this is easy - only few tasks depend on external factors: 
they're vendor deliveries and required items from international 
collaborators.

> Just want to understand the motivation here.  This is a lot of work.

The task dependencies is very little work.  Probably less than an hour 
per deliverable.  The variance report stuff is probably one day per 
deliverable.  I don't think this is a lot of work if you want to receive 
a few million $$ of taxpayer money.

Best,

Gustaaf


> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> ===================
> Tom Schwarz
> Associate Professor
> Department of Physics
> University of Michigan
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:14 AM Gustaaf Brooijmans 
> <gusbroo AT nevis.columbia.edu <mailto:gusbroo AT nevis.columbia.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     A couple of requests:
>
>     -please send the VR tracking sheets you prepared for the director's
>     review; we'll want to go over them together but it may be useful for us
>     to start with email feedback.
>
>     -please start making a list of all the tasks with external dependencies
>     in your schedule.  This includes tasks where you depend on
>     international
>     collaborators as well as tasks where you depend on vendors.  It is
>     likely these will be the major source of covid-induced delays going
>     forward.  Please have this ready by July 1st.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Gustaaf
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