Office of Planning and Assurance

Office of Planning and Assessment

OPA assists management with strategic planning, performance assessment, and continuous improvement to support the SLAC mission, plan and agenda.

MISSION
We enable customer-focused, value-added mission delivery through Strategic Planning, Requirements Management, Performance Assessment and Continuous Improvement.

VISION
We partner across SLAC to drive lab-wide change and improvements that result in high quality performance to make science happen.

Director
Craig Ferguson

Administrative Associate
Sheila Farris-Bigg

Strategic Planning

"Support process to flow mission, vision, lab plan and lab agenda into the organization"

OPA provides and owns the process and tools for strategic planning components.

Contact                           
Sacha Hanigan (lead)           

Sites
Website
SharePoint Site

 

Contract Management

"Provide the process and support to ensure value-added requirements are identified and flowed into management systems"

OPA collects, interprets, evaluates and communicates SLAC requirements.

Contact                           
Janet Tulk (lead)
James Burtnett
Vickee Flynn             

Sites
SharePoint Site

Performance Assessment

"Provide effective and efficient methods to assess and understand performance and manage issues"

OPA provides the assessment process and oversight, and helps line management to formulate self-assessments.

Contact                           
Barbara Benotto (lead)
Leslie Stepanek

Rich Poliak

Sites
Website  
SharePoint Site

Continuous Improvement

"Partner with our customers to achieve improvements to further enable effective and efficient delivery of the mission"

OPA facilitates process improvement and adoption of best practices from laboratories and private industry.

Contact                           
Barbara Benotto
(lead)
Rich Poliak
Gregory Calloway

Sites
Website  
SharePoint Site

 


Sample metrics

Here's one way ES&H monitors lab performance by directorate.

Key Metrics Dashboard


SLAC Management Model


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