

federal program and project managers go beyond PMBOK® Guide fundamentals and focuses on acquisition integration. As such, training and certification for Institute, 2013). Then they solicit, select, and oversee has been more acknowledgement of agile practices contractors who perform the hands-on work of and principles in recent years (Federal Acquisition the project. The federal project manager where PMI is moving faster to adopt while most (PM) plans the scope, schedule, and cost within the FAC-P/PM courses are exclusively focused on constraints of their congressional appropriations predictive management concepts, though there (PMI, 2017). Agile is another area contract management. being executed by teams of contractors (Federal Project management is therefore intricately linked to Acquisition Institute, 2013). effective stewards of taxpayer dollars (PMI, 2017). As noted above, each of these information in FAC-P/PM certification, visit the services on behalf of the federal government – is competencies is geared towards managing in Federal Acquisition Institute’s website at heavily regulated to ensure that agencies are being the context of the acquisition with the work gov. For more put, the acquisition process – buying goods and Management). Simply one competency – Business, Cost, and Financial (Federal Acquisition Institute, 2013). Exploring these topics can Corner Post Management Experts environment is the strong emphasis on managing not and Evaluation, Life Cycle Logistics, Contracting, Leadership, and Business, Cost, and Financial even be a great way to strike up conversation and build relationships with your contractors or your just projects and programs, Management (those last 3 being combined into customers early on in a new project engagement but acquisitions. Jeff Beverage, PMP, CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP One of the many unique complexities of the federal In terms of content, FAC-P/PM courses focus on seven competencies: Requirements Development to engage their counterparts to develop shared language and common understanding of how the Chief Executive Officer project management and Management, Systems Engineering, Test project will be managed.
