The Decision-Grade PMO: the files

The companion files for the current edition of The Decision-Grade PMO. Free, and no form to fill in. You have already paid for this material once.

Current edition: v1.96, 30 August 2026. Every file states the edition it was built from. If a file and your copy of the book disagree, check the errata below.

The Companion Pack

The editable working version of every template and checklist in the book, plus the full 75-prompt pack. One workbook, 28 sheets. It keeps the book’s numbering, so Template 5.1 in the book is Template 5.1 here.

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All tables

All twenty‑three tables at full width, with their captions. Landscape, so a six-column table can be read across a page instead of down a phone.

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All nine figures at source resolution. For putting a diagram in front of your own steering group, or printing one and working down it with a team.

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Reuse them in your own material with attribution. Figure 4.1 is an original diagram after a categorisation published by the CNSC, ONR and US NRC. The diagram is the author’s own; the underlying categorisation is the regulators’.

Case material. Bramwold, Stellar and Brackmere are composite cases. All organisations, contractors and individuals named in the case material are composites or inventions, and no reference to any actual organisation or person is intended or should be inferred.

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84 entries

Agents (AI)Ch 1, Ch 3, Ch 13, Ch 16, Ch 19, App C
AMLAS (Assurance of Machine Learning for Autonomous Systems)Ch 14, Ch 21
APMCh 3, Ch 21, App B
AssuranceCh 13, Ch 14, Ch 17, Ch 18, Ch 19, Ch 20
Audit trailCh 1, Ch 4, Ch 5, Ch 13, Ch 14, Ch 21
Automation (AI type)Ch 1, Ch 3, Ch 6, Ch 7, Ch 12, Ch 19
Bramwold Programme PartnersCh 1, Ch 2, Ch 19, Ch 20
Budget at Completion (BAC)Ch 6, App F
CAEsee Claims, Arguments, Evidence
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)Ch 4, Ch 14, Ch 19, Ch 21
Change and contract serviceCh 10
Claims, Arguments, Evidence (CAE)Ch 3, Ch 8, Ch 10, Ch 14, Ch 20, App D
Consequence and autonomy plane (four-region model)Ch 4, Ch 21, App D
Cost and estimating serviceCh 8
Cost Performance Index (CPI)Ch 2, Ch 4, Ch 8, Ch 16, Ch 19, App F
Cut-off disciplineCh 1, Ch 5, Ch 11, Ch 16, Ch 17, App D
Data driftCh 5, App D
Data ProductCh 5, Ch 7, Ch 11, Ch 13, Ch 17, Ch 18
Decision rightsCh 1, Ch 4, Ch 6, Ch 9, Ch 11, Ch 14
Decision serviceCh 2, Ch 6, Ch 7, Ch 9, Ch 20, App E
Decision Service CardCh 2, Ch 6, App D, App E
Earned Value Management (EVM)Ch 16, App B, App F
Estimate at Completion (EAC)Ch 4, Ch 8, Ch 13, Ch 16, App D, App F
Evidence SpineCh 10, Ch 13, Ch 14, Ch 16, Ch 17, Ch 18
Exception-based triageCh 16, Ch 17
Failure mode, agent publicationCh 3, Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, autonomy creepCh 4, Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, confidentialityCh 10, Ch 11, Ch 13, Ch 15, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, definition driftCh 3, Ch 4, Ch 5, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, drift (data and model)Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19, Ch 21
Failure mode, evidence gapsCh 4, Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, GenAI hallucinationCh 3, Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, operating thresholdCh 3, Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
Failure mode, service transfer without re-validationCh 3, Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 16, Ch 19
False positive / false negative trade-offCh 16, Ch 19, App C, App D
Float erosionCh 7, Ch 16
Four-region modelsee Consequence and autonomy plane
Generative AI (GenAI)Ch 3, Ch 4, Ch 8, Ch 12, Ch 13, App C
Helen RobertsCh 2, Ch 14, Ch 15
Human-in-the-loop (HITL)Ch 3, Ch 4, Ch 5, Ch 10, Ch 18, App F
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)Ch 21
IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology)Ch 21
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)Ch 21
ISO 21500/21502App B
ISO 42001 (AIMS)Ch 18, App B, App F
James FairbrotherCh 2, Ch 4, Ch 10, Ch 15
Jonathan VasiliouCh 1, Ch 2, Ch 6
Level of Autonomy (LoA)Ch 3, Ch 4, Ch 6, Ch 16, Ch 18, App D
Machine learning (ML)Ch 14, Ch 16, Ch 21, App F
Maturity model, stagesCh 1, Ch 3, Ch 10, Ch 15, Ch 16, Ch 21
Maturity self-assessmentCh 1, Ch 17, Ch 18, App B, App D
Model driftCh 5, Ch 19, Ch 21, App D
Monte Carlo simulationCh 9, Ch 16, App F
Nerve Centre (NC)Ch 1, Ch 2, Ch 13, Ch 14, Ch 17, App F
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)Ch 2, Ch 4, Ch 14, Ch 20, Ch 21, App C
ONR sandboxing report (April 2026)Ch 5, Ch 19, Ch 21
Operating threshold (classifier services)Ch 19, App D
P3O / P3M3App B
P50 / P80Ch 2, Ch 6, Ch 8, Ch 9, Ch 16, App D
Planning and scheduling serviceCh 7
PMI / PMBOKCh 3, Ch 21, App B
Priya NairCh 1, Ch 2, Ch 6, Ch 10, Ch 13, Ch 17
Publication GateCh 4, Ch 6, Ch 16, Ch 19, App D, App E
Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA)Ch 6, Ch 7, Ch 8, Ch 9, Ch 16, Ch 18
Rachel OkonkwoCh 1, Ch 2, Ch 10, Ch 15, Ch 17
Reporting and insight serviceCh 12
Resource and capability serviceCh 11
Risk management serviceCh 9
Roadmap, digital PMOCh 1, Ch 13, Ch 16, Ch 17, App D, App F
ROI case, Brackmere (£650m)Ch 20
ROI case, Bramwold (£1.2bn)Ch 2, Ch 10, Ch 11, Ch 13, Ch 16, Ch 20
Schedule Performance Index (SPI)Ch 4, Ch 6, Ch 13, Ch 16, App F
Service transfer (re-validation requirement)Ch 19, App D
Stellar Phase 2 Month 12 (operating threshold)Ch 19, App D
Stellar Phase 2 Month 13 (service transfer)Ch 19, App D
Stellar Phase 2 Month 7 (data drift)Ch 5, App D
TCPI / TSPICh 6, Ch 21, App F
Thin SliceCh 6, Ch 15, Ch 17, Ch 20, Ch 21, App F
Threshold (classifier)see Operating threshold
Trilateral principles paper (CNSC/ONR/USNRCCh 2, Ch 4, Ch 14, Ch 18, Ch 19, Ch 20
UK GDPR / ICOCh 19, App C
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC)Ch 4, Ch 14, Ch 21
USNRCsee US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Value measurementCh 1, Ch 20

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