Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM)

The Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) is an independent assessment used to identify risks and issues which may impact project or program schedules. SCRAM embodies best practices from engineering, schedule development and project management. SCRAM can be used for the definition, assessment and improvement of schedule compliance. 

SCRAM can be used: 
• By organisations to construct a schedule that maximizes the likelihood of schedule compliance.
• To ensure common risks are addressed before the project schedule is baselined at the commencement of a project.
• To monitor project status, performed when requested or to support milestone reviews.
• To evaluate challenged projects, to assess the likelihood of schedule compliance, root cause of schedule slippage and recommend risk mitigation or remediation of project issues.

The audience for SCRAM includes:
• executives and other decision makers,
• project and program managers,
• engineers and project staff such as schedulers, and
• anyone interested in achieving project schedule compliance.