7100/7130 PPBE
7100/7130 PPBE
5400 Intro to BCA
7200 FM Role in Acquisitions /Life Cycle
7210 Cost Estimating
5230/5240 EVM
7420 CPI
100

What is The Planning Phase?

and What deliverable comes out of this phase?

Identify Capability Requirements 5 yrs out. 

Plan to Program Guidance

  

100
Which phase of PPBE expends resources and evaluates how we achieved desired capabilities current yr
Executation
100
What are the first three key elements included in the BCA structure?

Executive Summary

Problem Statement

Assumptions

100
Who is in charge of the acquisition program
Who is Program Manager (PM)
100
What is purpose of Cost estimating?
What is translate system/functional requirements into budget requirements.
100
What is an early warning system
What is EVM?
100

Standardized method and Mindset for reducing waste in all the processes we use to execute the mission

What is LEAN?

200
What Phase of the PPBE process translates programs into budget proposals 1 yr out.
Budgeting
200
Which two phases of the PPBE process are internal to DoD process?
Planning and Programming
200
Which step or steps are equivalent to developing alternatives in the DS model
what is Future Step
200
Orderly way to delegate decision authority to the most appropiate Level
What is MDA?
200
What is the motivation for cost estimating?
What is decision Support, program control and legal requirments.
200
What is total budgeted for all work planned for this progect
What is budget at completion (BAC)?
200

What is Waste

Non-value added activity

Remember:

Non-value added activity = Waste. 

To understand what is considered waste, ask “if this step went away, would the customer know or care?

300
What is the purpose of the PPBE Process?
Provide the best mix of forces, equipment, manpower, and support attainable within fiscal constraints
300
What three things are required to build a POM?

Baseline Fiscal Guidance

Fiscal Guidance

Program Guidance

300
Which analysis is specific in scope?
What is EA?
300
Periods of time in respect of specific set objectives
What is Phases ?
300
What does accroym ACRAT stand for?

Accurate

Comprehensive

Replicable and auditable

traceable

300
What would you use to determine wheter a contractor is ahead or behind schedule
What is SV (Scheduled Variance)
300

Who defines waste

Who is the customer?

400

What is Programming Phase?

and What deliverable comes out of this phase?

Match requirements to available resources.

POM comes from here

400
What is Future years Defense Program (FYDP)?

database capturing/summarizing forces, resources, programs associated with DoD operations approved by secdef.

Part of Fiscal Guidance

FYDP= the 5 POM Years

400
What is typically written last in the BCA
What is executive Summary
400
What are milestones?
Decsion points that separate phases.
400
What is the detailed technical, programmatic , and schedule description
What is the Cost Analysis Requirments Description (CARD)
400

What Cost is actually incurred for work completed by a specified date ?in accomplishing work performed. 

What is actual cost work performed (ACWP).

400

What are the seven types of waste?

D-Defects

O-Overproduction

W-Waiting

N-Non-std and Overprocessing

T-Transportation

M-Motion

E-Excess Inventory


500

1. What is Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE)? and what two phases of the PPBE process does (CAPE) assist with?


1. Independent analytic advice to SECDEF on matter relating top Planning and Programming Phase

500
Congress uses _______in reviewing DoD Budget Requests and ________ to fund Military Programs

Major Force Programs (MFP)

Appropriations

500
How many sections are in a BCA
10
500
When do you begin planning for sustainment phase?
What is Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction Phase
500
Examines how sensitive the financial model's primary outputs are to changes in individual input factors.

What is Sensitivity Analysis?

500
The difference between amount budgeted and actually spent for work performed determines what?
What is CV= BWCP-AWCP?
600

Classified AF Database for PPBE

What is ABIDES? 

600
How do you change the content of the FYDP?

What is change the content of FYDP through

Initiatives , Disconnects and Offsets

600
Stakeholder action plan is included into what BCA Step?
What is Implementation or change management
600
What phase do you execute product support strategy
What is operation and support.
600

What are the 5 cost estimating Methodologies?

Analogy

Parametric

Engineering

Actual Costs

Expert Opinion

600
What is Management Reserve?
Portion of the Tab withheld to cover unforseeable events that are within scope of the contract. 
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