Text Box: Page # Text Box: Ventana® Project Models focus on the real drivers of output quality, schedule, and cost, often including technical sub-models. They provide a top-down view of major project components, tracking how completion speed and error generation are affected by the availability and quality of labor and prerequisite work. They help optimize schedule and budget in the face of shifting deadlines, funding, and output requirements.

Contractor performance
Text Box: The Electronic Systems Division (ESD) of the United States Air Force hired Ventana to create a model for contract management and control. The objective was to make accurate forecasts of project outcomes using only the limited contract data provided to the Government by private contractors. In its first application, the Ventana model accurately predicted that an important development project would be completed on schedule and only slightly over budget, an unusual outcome for an innovative defense project. Key to Ventana's success was normal monthly program reports to infer the amount of rework that the contractor would later discover. ESD verified the model's effectiveness by successfully applying it to additional projects. Text Box: Ventana® Data Models focus on understanding and interpreting existing data sets. They are used to separate true signals from sampling artifacts, triangulate among different measurements of the same system, test hypotheses about underlying causes, and identify both redundant information and critical information gaps.