U.S. ATLAS HL-LHC Upgrade Level 2 and Deputies-NSF only Management Mailing List

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

Hello L2 managers,

Thanks for filling many of the variance reports already.  Please keep in 
mind the recommendation from the EVMS review:

"In VARs with multiple drivers, quantify the cost and schedule impacts 
with each identified driver, especially for VARs with both COVID and 
non-COVID related variances.* (Guideline 23)"


A few comments to send to the CAMs:

-6.4.1: how much of the $200k is in the board delays?  Presumably not 
all, since it's a one month delay...
-6.4.2 is missing
-6.4.3: see above: how much is due to the french delay vs lack of parts?

-6.5: Why is shipping preproduction boards a corrective action?
-6.5.1: typo: was well as

-6.6: "the material costs were below budgeted cost" => this cannot 
contribute to a schedule variance, only a cost variance; "The sMDT also 
has had a technician temporarily leave, so labor costs are reduced. " => 
idem
-6.6.1: see above: please quantify the respective contributions of the 
two sources
-6.6.3: so when will the pre-production submission happen?   "Not just 
yet" is now 3 months...
-6.6.4: so even after taking into account preproduction there is still a 
$140k schedule variance, so this needs a bit more explanation...
-6.6.5: see above: please quantify the respective contributions of the 
two sources; will the BCP have any impact on the schedule variance?

-6.8.2 is a copy paste from the previous month, but what is asked now is 
a report on the *positive cost variance*!  This needs to be rewritten 
from scratch...
-6.8.3 is good

Thanks!

Gustaaf