Introduction to PM:
Acquisition professionals in the Program Management career field are concerned with all of the functions of a Program Management Office (PMO) or a Program Executive Office (PEO). Program management professionals serve in a wide range of PMO and PEO positions, including program integrators and analysts, program managers, program executive officers, and their deputies. They may also serve in a number of support and management positions throughout the workforce. The fundamental responsibilities of the program manager are to balance the many factors that influence cost, schedule, and performance; to interpret and tailor the DoD 5000 Series regulations; and to ensure that high quality, affordable, supportable, and effective defense systems are delivered to the warfighter as quickly as possible.
To locate information related to PM training, certification, and learning, go to the Training Center located in the Program Management Community of Practice ( PM CoP). If you are hunting for PM related content, go to the Library View of the PM CoP and look for your topic of interest or go to any of the other topics show on the PM CoP home page or listed below.
Introduction to the PM CoP:
Attention all Program Managers. Have you ever struggled to find the latest DoD, Army, Navy, or Air Force policy document? Have you ever wanted to get answers to your acquisition questions? Have you ever tried to make contact and collaborate with other acquisition professionals?
The PM CoP is one of 52 Communites located on the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) web site. The ACC is managed by a group of Knowledge Project Officers and technical staff located at the Defense Acquisition University at Fort Belvoir, VA. The success and quality of each Community depends on Subject Matter Experts (Government and Industry) that contribute content and manage topics on each site. In short, the Communities are run by the community!
More Resources for the Program Manager:
In addition to the PM CoP, support is available today on the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Website at www.dau.mil. DAU is the DoD schoolhouse for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistic Workforce (AT&L). The AT&L Workforce consist of Program Managers and many other functional career areas to include contracting, systems engineering, logistics, software management, budgeting and financial management, test and evaluation, manufacturing and QA, etc. From the DAU Website, you can sign up for certification courses and short courses. You can also access many other significant knowledge sharing websites from the DAU homepage.
The Defense Acquisition Portal has links to all of the DoD and service/agency acquisition policies at https://dap.dau.mil. Or you can network and collaborate with other acquisition professionals on the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) at https://acc.dau.mil. Here you can join one of many Communities of Practice (CoPs) and stay abreast of what's going on in acquisition.
Located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) is chartered to provide executive-level courses, international acquisition management courses, requirements management training, consulting, acquisition leadership training, and research to the DoD Acquisition Technology & Logistics (AT&L) workforce across the globe.
DSMC’s core faculty are former DoD and industry program managers and other senior acquisition practitioners, augmented as necessary by other DAU faculty, manages a dynamic curricula and mentors course participants both during and after their DSMC-DAU residency.
How DAU can help your program:
Our Mission Assistance teams http://www.dau.mil/ma/default.aspx partner with acquisition programs to provide tailored acquisition assistance to Program Managers and staff in order to improve acquisition outcomes. It begins with consultation with the Program Manager and key staff to understand their needs. We then customize our Mission Assistance efforts in response to those needs – from help with strategic planning, to training needs, or help with implementation of specific acquisition activities.
DAU Mission Assistance can help your organization by providing:
- Acquisition Workshops - Focused workshops for acquisition teams at critical points
- Consulting Services - Tailored assistance to address acquisition challenges
- Team Training - Training for acquisition teams
- Individual Focus - One-on-one leadership development for PEOs and PMs
PLEASE NOTE!
We are looking for Subject Matter Experts that are willing to actively manage a topic folder or contribute content to a topic. If you are interested, please contact
acc@dau.mil and let us know what topics you would like to work on.
We are always trying to improve the quality and quantity of the content within the PM CoP while enabling the user to easily locate their content of interest and to better navigate the site. With this in mind, we have made revisions to the PM CoP and organized the content into the follows major categories:
Content within the PM CoP is organized into the follows major categories (click on the blue links):
- Library View contains an alphabetical listing of all the topic folders found in the PM CoP. There are over 200 topics listed in this folder.
- Program Office Organization View contains a list of communities and knowledge by Program Office Functions.
- Acquisition and Business Systems Framework will take you to a folder containing a top level framework for these two systems.
- External Influences include some agencies and organizations that have potential influence on a Program.
- Tools contain a variety of PM tools.
- TrainingCenter contains a wealth of information related to PM training and learning from the Defense Acquisition University other organizations.
- Community Connection contains a list of PM related event and activities of the PM CoP members.
- Policy & Guidance contains a variety of policy & guidance content related to PM.
In addition, shown below are other folders listed on the site that are not located on the graphic, these are subject to change:
View PM related ACQuipedia articles (Your Online Acquisition Encyclopedia)
