You
wake up Saturday morning and your wife tells you she wants the bathroom
painted. She leaves to go out of town to visit her folks and you
go to the hardware store, pick up a couple of gallons of Hunter
Green paint, your favorite color, and get to work. You’re
complete by the time she gets home and are feeling very good about
what you’ve accomplished in such a very short time. She sees
the product and is speechless. Not because of the great job you’ve
done but because she really wanted it pink, to go with everything
else that’s already in the bathroom. You didn’t have
to ask questions, you got right to the task of completing the assignment
– paint the bathroom - and it turned out wrong. You didn’t
have the information you needed, mainly because you didn’t
ask, and now you’ve got to do the job all over again.
After having read the changes to 3170 that defined
the JCIDS, one thing immediately jumps out to the document writers
- I don't have to do an Information Exchange
Requirements (IER) Matrix (OV-3) ever again! Although there is
no requirement per the 3170 to include
the IER matrix in any of your documents, not going through the
analysis and putting together an OV-3 will:
- hinder the ability to see ALL of the requirements
- make development of an SV-6, a required document for both the CDD and CPD, very difficult
What
are the Recommended Fields?
OV-1/SV-1
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