DCMA 14-Point Schedule Assessment Template - BiblioPM

In 2005, the US Defense Contract Management Agency created a 14-point schedule assessment to assist the Department of Defense in evaluating the massive volume of contracts and schedules that they were responsible for handling.

Years later, the DCMA’s 14-point Schedule Assessment is a frequently used guideline.

Essentially, it is determining if the schedule is well-built – whether it corresponds to a set of best practices that are deemed critical to a project’s success and management. These recommended practices are divided into a list of 14 checks.

1. Logic
2. Leads 
3. Lags
4. FS Relationships
5. Hard Constraints
6. High Float
7. Negative Float
8. High Duration Tasks
9. Invalid Dates
10. Resources
11. Missed Tasks
12. Critical Path Test
13. Critical Path Length Index
14. Baseline Execution Index