LR – Lines of Development
The Lr Lines of Development View specifies the logical threads (lines of development) for a set of projects and programmes. The status of each of these threads can be shown at the various milestones in the projects or programmes.
Concerns Addressed
- Acquisition Planning.
- Portfolio / Programme Management.
- Project Performance Reporting / Dashboarding.
Background
The Lr View is primarily intended to support the acquisition process across multiple projects or programmes, highlighting dependencies the logical dependencies between capabilities, projects and the integration of all lines of development to achieve a successfully integrated military capability. Use of the Lr View should support the management of capability delivery and be aligned with Cr, Capability Roadmap.
Usage
- Project management and control (including delivery timescales).
- Project dependencies and the identification of associated risk.
- Portfolio management.
- Through Life Management Planning.
Representation
- Timeline View.
- Augmented Gantt Chart.
Detailed View Description
The Lr View provides an overview of a set of individual projects (e.g. within a given programme or portfolio), based on a timeline. Projects may be broken into threads (work streams) to show the dependencies at a lower level. Where appropriate, the Lr View may also summarise the level of maturity achieved across the threads at given milestones in each project.
The information provided by an Lr view can be used to determine the impact of either planned or unplanned programmatic changes, highlight opportunities for optimisation across the delivery programme, and identify potential delays which impact on the delivery of capability. Action to address areas of concern identified in one or more threads, (e.g. a shortfall in training resource) can be coordinated across a programme or group of projects. In particular, the knowledge of the dependencies between project milestones can quickly inform a programme manager when a slippage in one project is likely to cause delays in other projects.
In support of the management of a programme of projects, it is desirable to have a set of common milestones at the programme level against which the maturity of each of the constituent projects is judged.
An Lr view is presented as a Gantt chart, optionally augmented with project thread status indicator symbols that indicate the status of each thread at given milestones and the dependencies between them. This is usually achieved using colour-coding so that stakeholders can tell, at a glance, the status of a given project at different points in time.
Figure 3-424: Example Lr View
Key Elements and Their Relationships
Meta-Model
The detailed meta-model and element list for Lr, Lines of Development, is at paragraph 4.4.9.