magnus919_agent-skills/technical-project-management/references/source-index.md

Source index and evidence ledger

Inspected 2026-09-05. IDs are stable citations used throughout the bundle. This is an evidence ledger of paraphrases and original applications, not an archive of copyrighted publications. No full books, standards, or reports are redistributed.

Method and governance sources

ID	Source / edition	Material inspected and supported claim	Limits
S01	PMI, Project Management Embraces the Fit-for-Purpose Approach	Article; approach selection should fit the project rather than impose one framework	Professional-body commentary, not a universal causal comparison
S02	Schwaber and Sutherland, Scrum Guide, November 2020	Scrum Team, Sprint, artifacts; distinct accountabilities, goals, usable increments, inspection and adaptation	Framework definition, not evidence that Scrum fits every project; original synthesis here, no guide reproduction
S03	The Kanban Guide, May 2025	Workflow definition, active management, improvement, flow measures	Definition-level evidence; detailed application belongs to kanban-guru
S04	GAO Schedule Assessment Guide, GAO-16-89G, 2015	Overview and report, best-practice headings and critical-path sections; dependency logic, resource feasibility, schedule risk, updating and baseline maintenance	Public capital-program context; the bundled calculator implements only elementary dependency arithmetic
S05	GAO Agile Assessment Guide, GAO-24-105506, 2023, revised December 15	Official overview: incremental development, adoption, execution, monitoring and control	Overview inspected; full PDF retrieval failed. Do not attribute detailed checklist requirements to this source. Replaces the 2020 exposure draft
S06	Government Project Delivery, GovS 002, v2.1, September 2025	HTML: principles; 3.4 approach selection; 6 project lifecycle; 7 planning/control; 8.8 transition	Mandated for its UK government scope, not all organizations. HTML reports modification March 2026
S07	PeopleCert, PRINCE2 7 Issues: not every issue equals a change, 2023	Article by co-author Brad Bigelow: capture and assess an issue before treating it as a baseline change	Public explanation only; not a substitute for the licensed manual
S08	PeopleCert, PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner v7	Official overview of principles, practices, processes, and tailoring	Product description; no claim of complete PRINCE2 implementation or certification
S09	Basecamp, Shape Up, The Betting Table	Protected capacity, appetite, cycle decisions, circuit breaker	Creator's operating account; not universal schedule evidence. Product-shaping owns detailed application
S10	PMI, Analysis of Resource Buffer Management in Critical Chain Scheduling, 2006	Resource readiness and scheduling under constraints	Conference research paper, not a PMI standard; does not justify universal buffer percentages

Case sources

ID	Source / event context	Evidence inspected	Limits
C01	GAO, Healthcare.gov contract management, GAO-14-694, 2014	What GAO Found: changing requirements and oversight gaps accompanied increased costs and schedule slippage around the 2013 launch	Independent audit, specific federal procurement context
C02	GAO, Healthcare.gov development practices, GAO-15-238, 2015	What GAO Found and recommendation updates: requirements, incomplete testing, unreliable schedules; subsequent corrections	Separates initial findings from later verified implementation; not proof that changing methodology alone fixes delivery
C03	GitHub, Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0, December 2023, updated May 2024	Preparing the journey, communication, upgrade plan, rollback: staged work with app/database coordination	First-person account; outcome is reported by the organization, not independently audited
C04	NASA, Lost in Translation: Mars Climate Orbiter, 2009 safety briefing	Proximate cause / underlying issues slide: interface verification, communication, operational readiness in the 1999 loss	Retrospective NASA summary of investigation, not direct access to all project records
C05	GDS, The new normal for GOV.UK, June 2015	Transition complete; shift from migration timetable toward running and improving the service	First-person leadership account, not independent benefits evaluation

Attribution discipline

In recommendations, distinguish source finding, our inference, and proposed practice. The numbered procedures, thresholds to agree with teams, templates, and software are original synthesis. No source endorses this bundle. Method-specific summaries are deliberately short; consult the primary work when its formal rules matter. Preserve authors and editions when updating references.

Evidence collection is complete for this initial release, not exhaustive. Refresh framework editions when a user requests current compliance or formal adoption. Retain case event dates: a recently crawled page does not make a historical case recent. Contradictory local evidence outranks a superficial analogy to a case.