Project Management Initiative

The NRC staff will continue to improve its efficiency by adopting applicable practices from the professional project management industry. This effort will increase efficiency and productivity by developing structured approaches and standardized processes for project tracking and accountability, establishing a standard data capture and data analysis capability across NRC for tracking resources and schedules, and strengthening the capacity and skills of NRC project managers through qualifications and training.

Here's our progress so far:

• The NRC established a project plan to increase accountability and transparency by applying project management discipline to a majority of agency’s work.
• A foundational structure was put in place to begin aggregating data across the agency to enable improved insight into how work is prioritized, distributed, and delivered.
• Developing an agency-wide prioritization of workload to support more effective resource allocation and ability to reprioritize as needed given limited availability of critical skills.
• Additional work is underway to validate, update, and maintain this information on an ongoing basis.

Ultimately, this effort is expected to yield significant dividends in quantifying how staff time is spent, associated outputs, and improve agency agility in directing resources to the highest priority work. This will enable the NRC to increase its capacity to absorb increases in workload while maintaining quality and achieving operational efficiency.