Defense AT and L. Volume 42, Number 2, March-April 2013

Abstract

The challenges facing an acquisition Program Management Office (PMO) team are endless. With the charge to navigate an acquisition process that typically has innumerable moving parts at any one timeand all with a very thin margin of error in terms of meeting cost, schedule, performance, and affordability goalsevery PMO team must be effective and adaptable across all phases of the acquisition process. Adding to this complexity is the PMO teams need to interface and coordinate with various key stakeholders and, potentially, some geographically dispersed organizational supporting sites. When a new program manager, or PM, takes command of a PMO, he or she is interested in determining just how effectively the PMO team works together while trying to identify specific focus areas that might need some level of dedicated leadership attention. So how does a PM and the PMO leadership team obtain fact-based information to act upon in the name of organizational improvement? By what means can the PM determine how well the organization works together and possible focus areas that might warrant attention?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
AD1015911

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Business Administration
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Programming
  • Engineers
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Greenhouse Gases
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.