An Assessment of Adaptive Program
Management (APM) Development by the
United States Navy in Guam
Advisor: Dr. Michael K. Orbach
What are the limitations for the use of
consensus-based adaptive (program)
management to mitigate very large, complex,
and long duration construction programs?
Key concepts: Adaptive Program Management
NEPA mitigation monitoring
Management by Consensus
Project Question
• Method - single case qualitative analysis
• Data - Guam APM project documents, interview
responses from project tiger team members,
comparative adaptive program management examples,
and Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) guidance
and task force reports
• Analysis
- Interview responses
- Charter documents
- Construction Impact Analysis tool
- CEQ guidance and other relevant AM mitigation
Methods, Data, and Analysis
Preliminary Findings:
•
•
•
•
Comparative APM examples have not been found
Subjects express high level of satisfaction with APM
Implementation procedures are vague/under development
The issue of “authorities” has been difficult to reconcile with
consensus-based management.
Next Steps:
• Analyze interview responses (Dec 2012)
• Conduct further research for comparative cases (Jan 2012)
• Draft MP (Jan-March 2013)
Preliminary Findings and Next Steps