Practice Standard for Scheduling - Third Edition

5

CONFORMANCE INDEX

This section provides an overview of the conformance index process. This section is divided into the following sections:

5.1 Conformance Overview

5.2 Conformance Assessment Process

Each section provides additional information on this practice standard's content and terminology.

5.1 CONFORMANCE OVERVIEW

The conformance index provides a means to assess how well a CPM schedule model incorporates the guidelines, definitions, behaviors, and good practices for the components as defined in Section 4 of this practice standard. Some project managers may choose not to include some of these core-required components (CRC). In doing so, the resulting schedule model will not be in conformance with this practice standard and may not be ...