Reference no: EM131417505

Business Assignment

Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document shell

• Use Word
• Title page

o Course number and name
o Project name
o Your name
o Date

• Table of Contents (TOC)

o Use an autogenerated TOC.
o This should be on a separate page.
o This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
o Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.

• Section headings (create each heading on a new page with "TBD" as the content, except for sections listed under "New Content" below)

o Project Outline
o Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management
o Management of Small Projects
o Acquisition Project Guidelines
o Costing Methods and Tools
o Earned Value Management System
o Overall Cost and Schedule Performance

• New content to be inserted in document shell

o Project Outline

- Give a brief description of the project.
- Discuss the overall project deliverable.
- The material can be taken from approved proposal submitted to instructor, and this will serve as the draft for the proposal.
- Be sure this project is approved by the instructor.

o 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.
- Determine the project schedule for the acquisition component of the overall project and include a copy of it.
- Develop the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and critical path method (CPM) for this Key Assignment acquisition project, and include copies of those charts in this section.
- Describe all of the key schedule influencers that can impact a schedule positively or negatively and how you would handle them.