Management

IPT/IPPD
Acquisitions
LEARNING
POINTS
100

This book is the premier professional association for program management.

What is A Guide to the Program Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)?

100

This is a multidisciplinary group of people who are collectively responsible for delivering a defined product or process.

What is a Integrated Product Team (IPT)?

100

This is a public law that established education and training standards, requirements, and courses for the civilian and military workforce.

What is the DAWAI (Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act)?

100

This aircraft mentioned in the reading is better than the F-22.

What is the F/A-18?

200

This is defined as the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

What is Project Management?

200

This is a management process that integrates all activities from product concept through production/field support and its manufacturing and sustainment processes to meet cost and performance objectives.

What is Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)?

200

In this year, DAWIA was enacted by Congress.

What is 1990?

200

This Navy Command is in charge of the F/A-18 Program.

What is the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)?

300

This is defined as the application of knowledge, skills, and principles to a program to achieve the program objectives and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing program components individually.

What is Program Management?

300

This is the "enabler" for IPPD.

What is the IPT (Integrated Product Team)?

300

This legislative branch governmental agency published the “Framework for assess the Acquisition Function at Federal Agencies,” that identified four cornerstones that have been shown to promote an efficient, effective, and accountable acquisition function?

What is the Government Accountability Office (GAO)?

300

This sister school is better than the Airforce Institute of Technology.

What is the Naval Postgraduate School?

400

These are two characteristics of a project.

What are temporary and unique?

400

Although IPPD and IPTs were implemented in review and oversight of acquisition programs, they were most widely used at this level.

What is execution?

400

These two DoD graduate education schools offer graduate education degree programs in acquisition-related areas since the 1950s?

What are the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)?

400

This is another term for a safety concern routed separately if an individual team member disagrees with the rest of the team or the team leader.

What is technical conscience?

500

These are the three constraints of a Project that must be balanced.

What are Cost, Schedule, and Performance?

500

OSD staff operationalized Perry's vision for IPPD in the review and oversight of acquisition programs through these product teams.

What are Overaching Integrated Product Teams (OIPTs) and Working-Level Integrated Product Teams (WIPTs)?

500

This is the leading membership association for the program management profession with more than 240,000 members in over 160 countries.

What is the Project Management Institute (PMI)?

500

This football team will beat West Point this year.

What is the Naval Academy football team?