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Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document shell

• Use Word
• Title page
  • Course number and name
  • Project name
  • Your name
  • Date
• Table of Contents (TOC)
  • Use an autogenerated TOC.
  • This should be on a separate page.
  • This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
  • 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)
  • Project Outline
  • Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management
  • Management of Small Projects
  • Acquisition Project Guidelines
  • Costing Methods and Tools
  • Earned Value Management System
  • Overall Cost and Schedule Performance
• New content to be inserted in document shell
  • 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.
  • 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.