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