Report
Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 1
Nov 7, 2011
This report documents the structured process that was developed to help project teams identify acquisition framing assumptions (FAs), which are useful in defining and tracking key program assumptions throughout the life of an acquisition program. The process describes a structured deliberation workshop (in the form of a briefing) with the aim of identifying candidate FAs.
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This report documents the structured process that was developed to help project teams identify acquisition framing assumptions (FAs), which are useful in defining and tracking key program assumptions throughout the life of an acquisition program. The process describes a structured deliberation workshop (in the form of a briefing) used to facilitate a deliberation with the aim of identifying candidate FAs. The report provides an introduction to the concept of FAs and an overview of the approach used in the briefing to identify FAs. It includes an overview of structured deliberation, some of the important concepts in having a successful session, and suggestions on how to tailor questions related to program risk areas to help elucidate FAs.
Chapter One
Structured Process Guidance
Chapter Two
Slides
This research was sponsored by the Performance Assessment and Root Cause Analysis (PARCA) office and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community.
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