\nOverview
\nGovernmental and nongovernmental acquisition projects each have their own set of challenges, including extra regulatory activities. The basic project management scheduling and cost principles still apply. Cost and earned value analysis play an IMPORTANT role, just as they would in any project, to keep an acquisition project on track. In this course, you are asked to develop a Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan that allows you to select and integrate scheduling, performance, and cost-related TOOLS to enhance the overall scheduling and cost control of an acquisition project. You will select a project that you may have developed in a previous class or a known project in an organization that is an acquisition-type project to create this plan for.
\nThroughout this course, you will be working on developing several components of the final Key Assignment. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project.
\nIn this first Individual Project, you are asked to develop the outline of the sections that will be included in the Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document and a draft of a proposal to submit to your instructor. The other information you will include is a high-level description of the project that you will be developing for a small-acquisition project.
\nYou will also be setting up the final Key Assignment outline that you will add to each week. The combined Individual Project (IP) assignments will be your final Key Assignment deliverable.
\nProject Selection
\nThe first step will be to select a project for which you want to develop a Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management plan. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:
\nNontrivial: The selected project candidate should reflect a real-life project.
\nDOMAINknowledge: You will be applying knowledge of this acquisition project to address assignments related to scheduling and cost.
\nSelect a project that fits these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first few days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.<\/p>\n
\nLength: Word document with 10 total pages, including empty SECTIONS; 600?900 word
\nThere should be a project description and deliverables for the selected project.
\nYou should discuss what types of cost tools and techniques they would utilize to perform the initial estimates they are using to monitor the project?s progress.
\nYou should also cover what each of the following items is and provide one for their specific project:
\nGantt chart
\nProgram evaluation and review technique (PERT) chart
\nCritical path method (CPM)
\nFinally, discuss what some of the key schedule influencers are and how they will handle them.<\/p>\n
Instructor’s Comments:
\nThe project deliverables are the following:
\nSubmit your project proposal to your instructor for approval.
\nAcquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document shell
\nUse Word
\nTitle page
\nCourse number and name
\nProject name
\nYour name
\nDate
\nTABLEof Contents (TOC)
\nUse an autogenerated TOC.
\nThis should be on a separate page.
\nThis should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
\nBe sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
\nSection headings (create each heading on a new page with “TBD” as the content, except for sections listed under “New Content” below)
\nProject Outline
\nCost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management
\nManagement of Small Projects
\nAcquisition Project Guidelines
\nCosting Methods and TOOLS
\nEarned Value Management System
\nOverall Cost and Schedule Performance
\nNew content to be inserted in document shell
\nProject Outline
\nGive a brief description of the project.
\nDiscuss the overall project deliverable.
\nThe material can be taken from approved proposal submitted to instructor, and this will serve as the draft for the proposal.
\nBe sure this project is approved by the instructor.
\nCost, Schedule, and Technical Performance
\nDiscuss cost techniques both in determining initial estimates and in monitoring and controlling them throughout the life of the project.
\nDetermine the project schedule for the acquisition component of the overall project and include a copy of it.
\nDevelop the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and critical path method (CPM) for this Key Assignment acquisition project, and include copies of those charts in this SECTION.
\nDescribe all of the key schedule influencers that can impact a schedule positively or negatively and how you would handle them.
\nName the document “LastName_FirstName_MPM434_IP1.doc.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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