Describe your understanding of the acquisitions life-cycle to assist in the development and execution of Government program requirements.

Description

This is a creative writing exercise for a end of term project. Imagine you are writing a response to a proposal to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and you have all of the resources and experience required to answer the questions.

1. Describe your methodology to integrate program/project management plans to track, monitor, control and report performance and variances against established schedules, risks, and budgets while responding to emerging program changes.

2. Describe your experience using management tools to create strategy, plan, and implement feasible and sustainable plans that address mission critical program needs.

3. Describe your preferred methodology that has previously resulted in successful program/project management performance in organizations of similar size and scope to the VA.

4. Describe your approach to using planning, programming, budgeting, and execution methodology to support the Government with establishing executable plans and processes to justify, track, monitor and report financial resources needed to address mission critical needs.

5. Describe how quality control procedures will be used to monitor and control performance to include identifying, assessing, and addressing risks and deficiencies before service levels are impacted.

6. Describe your understanding of the acquisitions life-cycle to assist in the development and execution of Government program requirements.

7. Address how you would support implementation, and sustainment of system redesign and business process reengineering, improvement and management.

8. Describe specific experience supporting major organizational change in large, complex organizations involving risk assessment, stakeholder engagement, organization transformation, and culture change. Include the size, scale, depth and breadth of the organization transformed.

9. Address the tools and techniques you will use to assist with quality measurement in organizational transformation. Identify quality standards and metrics you intend to implement to ensure the quality control of the proposed approach to organizational transformation.

10. Address how you would manage and support VA data availability, usability, integrity and security.

11. Address your methods for analyzing existing data or information, statistical analysis of data collected, and outcome measures. Environmental scans.

12. Address your plan to stay abreast of current technology solutions to ensure accurate data and information is disseminated to VA and VA stakeholders.

13. Address your experience with preparing operational and procedural manuals. Engage stakeholders, test solutions

14. Provide your plan for records information management that includes digitization of hard records to electronic media, disposition of records, and storage in accordance with specific regulations.

15. Demonstrate your understanding of applicable laws and statutes of VA financial services and your experience with conducting audits based on applicable standards.

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