VALU Management Best Practices: A Case Study

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APMF is a comprehensive, efficient, and repeatable acquisition approach that enhances VALU’s ability to deliver business capabilities within cost, schedule, and scope. The Framework is comprised of five key elements that leverage program management best practices. • Process: Divides the acquisition life cycle into a five phase process where program health is reviewed during Decisions Events. • Roles & Responsibilities: Defines stakeholder roles and establishes structured program oversight to increase the transparency of VALU acquisitions. • Reporting: Promotes the regular transmission of information on program status, health, risks, and issues to VALU leadership to facilitate effective decision-making. • Reviews: Standardizes formal reviews throughout the …show more content…

1. Verify Phase: Verifies the legitimacy of business needs and whether proposed acquisition of a capability, product, and/or service sufficiently addresses those needs. 2. Initiate Phase: Develops key planning documents to effectively scope, resource, and plan the acquisition program before obtaining the capability. 3. Obtain Phase: Obtains the capability through procurement or systems design and development activities; and evaluates, tests, and verifies that the capability satisfies requirements. 4. Deploy Phase: Implements the capability and defines the processes, procedures, and roles and responsibilities to transition the capability to operations and maintenance. 5. Operate and Maintain Phase: Operates and maintains the capability while continuing to monitor its performance and value until retirement. Decision Events are used to verify that programs are operating within acceptable cost, schedule, and scope thresholds; risk and issues are appropriately mitigated; and APMF program artifacts are complete. Key artifacts that must be developed for the APMF are as follows by

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