The Acquisition Strategy: A Roadmap to Program Management Success

Abstract

Obtaining major milestone approval challenges DoD program managers (PMs) to create programs that satisfy numerous stakeholders and address requests from multiple constituencies. Another feature of the DoD acquisition system is the requirement to create a mountain of documentation to assist the review process; current regulations require up to 60 documents (32 regulatory and 28 statutory) to pass a single milestone review! Each of these documents/constituencies seeks clarity on specific aspects of the program and zealously works to obtain the satisfaction of its unique concerns. Along the milestone pathway, its easy for the PM to get overwhelmed by this blizzard of paperwork/requests and adopt a mindset of Ill do whatever it takes to obtain your concurrence to complete the milestone review checklist.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1016165

Entities

People

  • John Mueller

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • End Items
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Personnel Management
  • Program Management
  • Risk
  • Systems Engineering
  • Thinking

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Systems Analysis and Design