| Training Curriculum |
Improving IT Budget Justifications and Exhibit 300 Submissions will be instructed by
John Keane, Senior Fellow, The Performance Institute |
| Day One Agenda: |
9:00 |
Update on OMB Directives and Pending Changes in Exhibit 300
• President’s Management Agenda
• Citizen-centered e-Government
• Emerging guidance from the Office of Management and Budget |
10:30 |
Implementing Effective Performance Measures Required for Exhibit 300
• Discover the importance and value of performance measures relative to IT initiatives
• Utilize performance measures to assess government IT
• Develop performance measures to align IT goals with your agency’s
strategic mission using the Performance Reference Model |
11:15 |
Developing a Project and Earned Value Management Plan from Your Exhibit 300
• Utilize effective project management strategies to improve and accelerate the Exhibit 300 process
• Conduct a comprehensive alternatives analysis and risk assessment |
12:00 |
Individual Exhibit 300 Review Panel and Networking Luncheon |
1:00 |
Top Ten Ways to Significantly Improve the Quality of Your Exhibit 300
Submission (Part 1)
• Develop quality responses to tough questions
• Respond to subject areas that cross multiple sections, e.g. security
• Discover “gaps” between the evaluation criteria and the exhibit and develop a quality response to close them |
2:30 |
Top Ten Ways to Significantly Improve the Quality of Your Exhibit 300
Submission (Part 2)
• Learn how to apply project management techniques to complete the exhibit
• Integrate the Exhibit 300 process into your agency’s life cycle management processes
• Identify key sections where corporate standards can be best applied
• Establish roles for the IPT in the Exhibit 300 process
• Define necessary modifications in business cases for DME and steady state projects |
4:15 |
Formal Adjournment / Individual Exhibit 300 Review Panel |
| Day Two Agenda: |
9:00 |
Content Session 1: Alternatives Analysis and Financial Calculations
• Identify standards that facilitate completion of calculations
• Develop cost models for the three required alternatives |
10:00 |
Content Session 2: Investment Description and Justification
• Apply lessons-learned from past exhibits to improve the section’s
technical and qualitative aspects
• Identify key “must-do” and “should-do” principles
• Identify source documents to help with these sections |
11:00 |
Content Session 3: President’s Management Agenda
• Learn the fundamental concepts of complying with the PMA
• Use PMA principles to strengthen your business case in other areas |
12:00 |
Individual Exhibit 300 Review Panel and Networking Luncheon |
1:00 |
Content Session 4: Effective Project Management
• Identify the relationship between the program manager, external stakeholders, and project team
• Identify the key decisions to be made in section I.D. and I.H.
• Explore a project management approach to facilitate completion |
2:15 |
Content Session 5: Risk Inventory
• Use a project management approach to complete the risk inventory
• Identify additional risk factors and execute risk-management
• Learn a simple taxonomy for linking outcomes, outputs, assumptions and risks to measures |
3:00 |
Content Session 6: Acquisition Strategy
• Learn the fundamentals of performance-based contracting
• Learn the fundamentals of a performance-based statement of work
• Apply the fundamentals to completing section I.G. |
3:45 |
Content Session 7: Examining Part II
• Develop the response to the Enterprise Architecture section
• Use NIST Special Publication 800-26 to satisfy FISMA and Exhibit 300
• Address GPEA, data quality, privacy and records management |
4:45 |
Formal Adjournment/ Individual Exhibit 300 Review Panel |
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*Break times at instructor’s discretion |
