Project Planning

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AGiles

Project Planning is about estimating costs, effor and schedulres, figuring out how you will attach the service engagement and involving the right people -- all the while watching your risks and making suire your've got the resources you think you need.

Project Planning process involves the following areas:

developing the project plan;

interacting with stakeholders

getting commitment to the plan

maintaining the plan

• Section 1.1 of PMP provides the strategy for providing services to my customers.
• DISA - provide executive admin support, web design support/web maintenance, publication and presentation support and subtask conferencing
• OTS - provide IT support - Tier 1 & 2 and some Tier 3
• AAAP - provides nonpersonal techical services to support NGIC.  Data collection& Mining; data processing & analysis and tech support services; use our MOBIS schedule to obtain highly skilled professionals

• OTS and DISA, the life cycle model for is Prime
• AAAP is Prime with Sub.
• Life cycles have 4 phases - Program Initiation; Program Planning;Program Execution; and Program Closeout
• OTS, DISA and AAAP are inthe Program Exeuction - which is delivering the high quality services & support to our cusotomer.

• For all our projects we establish our project scope using the RFP and DST's response to soliciation. 
• QP-3 - Business Development Procedure

• DST has two WBS  structures -- Corporate and Site Level.
• CORPORATE WBS encompasses all managerial process for executing this and other projects at DST. (F&A, QA, HCM, HCM, IT)
• SITE LEVEL BS -encompasses the labors requirement of SOW at the top task requirement level. 
• Examples, OTS and DISA and AAAP

• Our project uses the following  to develop costs -- Locations, Labor Categories, number of personal (FTEs) for Prime and Sub, contract type and deliverables
• PMP Section 2.2
• For Example DISA has 1 location (relocation)

• DST determines their effort and cost estimates from RFP and customer requirements. 
• QP-3 Proposal and Business Developemnt
• QP 10 Business Solutions Procedure.

• Project plans (PMP) are reviewed monthly or as required due to changes that may happen.   Changes are reviewed and approved by QA. 
• QP  1  (DOCUMENT CONTROl) 

• Cost proposal become the budget for the project.  Schedules are based on major contract task (SOW)
• QP 3  &  PMP Section 2.4 guide this process.

• There are other consideration to a project plan besides schedules and budgets -- they are:
• Risk managment (QP19)- understanding transition to a project start-up; managing subcontractors.
• Training(QP9)- understanding requirement for the staff - certs, education, exper, clearances
• Resources (QP14) - identifying personnel and ODC that my need to be acquired (QP13)
• Data management (QP10) - outline program data used in the management of the contract - issues log, monthly status report, time sheets.
• Stakeholders: understanding internal external customers
• QP10.5.3 PM Kick off meeting - BS On boarding Department checklist; SubK agreement (10.5.6)
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as changes come about for example such as new labor categories - PMP needs to be updated along with the schedule to show completion

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