BMPCOE TRIMS Download & Tutorial Page

About TRIMS

TRIMS provides insight as a knowledge-based tool that measures technical risk management rather than cost and schedule. Cost and schedule overruns are downstream indicators of technical problems. Programs generally have had process problems long before the technical problem is identified. To avoid this progression, TRIMS operates as a process-oriented tool based on a solid Systems Engineering approach. Process analysis and monitoring provide the earliest possible indication of potential problems. Early identification provides the time necessary to apply corrective actions, thereby preventing problems and mitigating their impact. TRIMS is extremely user-friendly and tailorable. This tool identifies areas of risk, tracks program goals and responsibilities, and can generate a variety of reports to meet user needs. TRIMS software Download, TRIMS Sample Data Files, and TRIMS Training Videos are available below.

Reliability by Design MS Excel Based Spreadsheet “Scorecard” to Help Identify & Mitigate Problems

This simple Scorecard method provides a pro-active process-based risk assessment tool that can help identify weaknesses that affect our warfighters base upon a slimmed-down TRIMS database, if the full TRIMS resources is not utilized.

The Figure shows a notional sample excerpt from an assessment using the scorecard. This Scorecard spreadsheet, with slimmed-down TRIMS knowledge database, are available for download below and provide Tabs for Calculation Method and Survey Questions. At the core of the database are Lessons Learned and Best Practice Survey questions grouped inside spreadsheet tabs (for Design, Test, Production, …) which when answered populate a score on the Maturity-Index Tab. This scoring reveals a color coded maturity index revealing maturity goodness.

For more detail on how to use the scorecard, see the appendix of the second document below which is available for download. It is a document entitled “Reliability by Design: Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time” which examines lessons learned in nine important topics helpful to Project, Program and Portfolio Managers.

• Maturity Index Scorecard spreadsheet – Here
• Reliability By Design: Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time booklet - Here