FPM 511 - Management Competencies: Managing IT Projects

The FAC-PPM IT Core-Plus competency model identifies the minimum competencies required to specialize as a federally certified Program and Project Manager performing acquisition of Information Technology (IT) capital assets. This course focuses on the 20 performance outcomes from the FAC-PPM Standard that require additional, IT-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities. The course focuses on these other IT-specific performance outcomes to obtain the FAC-PPM IT Core-Plus certification. The IT-specific outcomes were established based on the 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management tenets.

·         Discuss project management considerations for federal IT projects

·         Evaluate cost-effective contracting and technology solutions during acquisition planning

·         Illustrate the criticality of user/mission requirements in IT project management

·         Forecast the impact of budgetary decisions on modular development

·         Discuss key technical management processes and tools used in systems engineering

·         Implement test and evaluation practices to ensure project quality

·         Apply tenets of Total Life Cycle Logistics Management to support a systems design

·         Describe how to effectively closeout an IT project

·         Create an on-the-job (OTJ) action plan