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](https://www.pmi.org/blog/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](https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html) | 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](https://kanbanguides.org/the-kanban-guide/) | 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](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-16-89g) | Overview and [report](https://www.gao.gov/assets/d1689G.pdf), 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](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105506) | 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](https://projectdelivery.gov.uk/library-products/government-functional-standard-govs-002-project-delivery/) | 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](https://www.peoplecert.org/news-and-announcements/2023/prince2-7-issues) | 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](https://www.peoplecert.org/browse-certifications/project-programme-and-portfolio-management/PRINCE2-2/PRINCE2-7-practitioner-3581) | 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](https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08) | 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](https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/resource-buffer-management-critical-chain-scheduling-8027) | 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](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-694) | 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](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-238) | 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](https://github.blog/engineering/upgrading-github-com-to-mysql-8-0/) | 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](https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/safetymessage-2009-08-01-themarsclimateorbitermishap-vits.pdf) | 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](https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/17/the-new-normal-for-gov-uk/) | 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.