Describe all of the key schedule influencers that can impact a schedule, positively or negatively, and briefly explain how you would handle them.

Unit 1 – Individual Project PC&S

Governmental 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 an 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.

This week, you are asked to develop the project outline that will be used to complete your Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document.

You will also discuss and describe cost, schedule, and technical performance domains for your chosen project. Your instructor will explain more details about this assignment in the Live Chats.
Project Outline

Write a brief description of the project.

Discuss the overall project objectives and high-level deliverables.
Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance

Discuss cost techniques, both in determining initial estimates and in monitoring and controlling them throughout the life of the project.

Describe all of the key schedule influencers that can impact a schedule, positively or negatively, and briefly explain how you would handle them.