IBR Team

Each IBR requires participation from specific program, technical, and schedule experts. The typical IBR team consists of the government program manager, technical experts, EVM analysts, cost estimators, and other technical expert personnel who may help during the review. The team’s size should be determined by the program’s complexity and the risk associated with achieving program objectives. Staff from a variety of disciplines—such as program management, systems engineering, software engineering, manufacturing, integration and testing, and logistics support—should assist in the review. In addition, experts in functional areas like cost estimating, schedule analysis, EVM, and contracting should be members of the team. The IBR team may at times also include subcontractor personnel.

Team members must have appropriate training before the IBR is conducted to ensure that they can correctly identify and assess program risk. Team members should be trained as needed so they understand the cost, schedule, and technical aspects of the performance measurement baseline and the processes that will be used to manage them.

The duties of all team members include:

  • attending IBR training before the start of the IBR,

  • reviewing contract documentation before baseline discussions with the control account manager (CAM),

  • conducting CAM and senior manager discussions,

  • helping to complete applicable documentation,

  • providing a risk assessment based on the prescribed risk evaluation criteria, and

  • helping to prepare the IBR out-brief.

In the weeks leading up to the IBR, the IBR team typically participates in a day of training tailored to the subject program that includes:

  • basic IBR fundamentals and review of the methodology to be followed;

  • detailed roles and responsibilities of team members;

  • guidance on baseline discussions with CAMs and the key documents that should be referenced (and sample data traces across these documents) to see how work is defined, baselined, measured, and scheduled;

  • results from recent schedule risk assessments, management system assessments, and major subcontractor IBRs (elements of the IBR NAVAIR performed before the IBR event to better understand the current risks in the baseline and focus on the program areas that align with these risks during the IBR);

  • IBR out-brief contents; and

  • evaluation criteria, tools, and forms expected to be used during execution.