1. ISA 320 Advanced Software Acquisition Management

2. Lesson 52 IT Leadership Next Steps

3. Did you know? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZiIO0YI7Y
6 minute video on technology and change in 2016
Introduction

4. What are our leadership challenges today. Tomorrow
What are our leadership challenges today? Tomorrow? Who do you need to be to make a difference? What is your next step.
Introduction

5. Working with you to achieve mission success
You may be done with certification, but DAU is still a resource for you in the future…
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The purpose of this briefing is to give DAU faculty a “tailorable” presentation designed to provide information to the senior acquisition personnel attending -300 level courses at the Defense Acquisition University. It helps answer the question: “What assets does DAU have to help their employees get certified and do their jobs more effectively throughout their careers, AND how DAU can work with their acquisition organization to achieve better acquisition outcomes?”
Because students at this level have already heard the DAU classroom briefing in their -100 and -200 level courses, you can and should tailor this briefing for your particular class. You can bring in material from other briefings, such as the mission assistance briefing or the -100 and -200 level classroom briefing or local charts that you believe would be useful.
The key point you want to make to these students: ensure that your personnel are aware of and use the numerous learning assets that DAU makes available throughout their careers.
Working with you to achieve mission success

6. Dau: training courses…and more
Classroom & online DAWIA, Core Plus, & Executive Targeted Training - Tailored organizational training
Rapid Deployment Training - On-site & online training on the latest AT&L policies
Continuous Learning
CL Modules - Online, self-paced learning modules
Conferences - DAU Acquisition Community Training Symposium, Hot Topic Forums
Formal & informal learning at the point of need
Knowledge Sharing
DAP - Online portal to Big A & HCI knowledge
ACC - DoD's online collaborative communities
Knowledge Repository and Acker Archives - Online connection to publications and DAU research resources
The Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L) Performance Learning Model (PLM) is a visual representation of how the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) fulfills its mission: Provide a global learning environment to develop qualified acquisition, requirements and contingency professionals who deliver and sustain effective and affordable Warfighting capabilities.
To provide this global learning environment, DAU delivers the following learning assets to the Defense Acquisition Workforce:
training courses
continuous learning
knowledge sharing
mission assistance.
As supervisors and work group leaders, our -300 level course students should be very familiar with these learning assets so they can ensure that their personnel are using them to:
**maintain their DAWIA certifications
**to access information and tools to perform their jobs more effectively
**and to obtain DAU mission assistance in the workplace to address organizational acquisition issues
Mission Assistance
Consulting - Helping organizations solve complex acquisition problems Team Training – Services Acquisition Workshops, MDAP event-driven training
Executive Coaching – For acquisition senior leaders

7. College of contract management (CCM)
Newest DAU college – partnership between DAU and the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
Objective: To provide the professional, accredited courses necessary to enhance the skills of the DCMA workforce
Post-award contract management courses in functional areas such as:
contract administration, pricing
quality assurance, industrial manufacturing
systems engineering, software engineering
earned value management, aircraft ops
Many courses fielded, more in FY15
Several CCM courses open to non-DCMA Defense Acquisition Workforce Members

8. Defense Systems Management College (DSMC)
DAU college specializing in requirements executive-level acquisition training
Objective: expand the knowledge base and training of senior acquisition leaders in support of Department of Defense initiatives
Executive-level Acquisition Course
International Acquisition Management Courses
Requirements Management Training
Acquisition Leadership Training
Executive Coaching
Mission Assistance

9. Helping Your People Earn Their Degrees
DAU partners with more than 100 colleges & universities to obtain credit for DAU courses toward degrees and certificates
“Excel-erate” Your Master’s Degree…
Through this program, partner universities are offering the Defense Acquisition Workforce credit toward masters degrees for DAWIA Level II and III certification.
DAU has more than 100 strategic partnerships with universities, other governmental agencies, professional associations, and defense industry companies.
Of primary interest to our students are our partnerships with universities and colleges.
The purpose of these partnerships is to obtain credit for DAU courses towards the degrees and certificates offered by these educational institutions. By obtaining graduate or undergraduate credit for DAU courses, workforce members can earn their degrees more quickly and at lower cost, thereby meeting their DAWIA certification education requirements or enhancing their qualifications for promotion.
In addition, some universities also offer DoD students discounted course costs because of these strategic partnerships.
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10. Helping Your People Earn Their “CL” Points
Continuous Learning
One of the key DAU transformation initiatives was to provide learning assets to the Defense Acquisition Workforce 24/7 to help them do them perform their jobs more effectively
The DAU Continuous Learning Center offers online, self-paced Continuous Learning Modules (CLM)—more than 200 in total.
These short modules (2-4 hours on average) can be searched to find knowledge needed to address a workplace need. Our workforce members can formally enroll in the module, complete all of the material, and upon successfully completed the assessment at the end of the module earn continuous learning points (CLP), which will help them meet their requirement to earn a total of 80 continuous learning points every two years to maintain their DAWIA certification.
In addition to CLMs, the DAU continuous learning webpage provides workforce members access to information on numerous ways to earn CLPs.
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11. Providing Online Tools To Enhance Job Performance
Defense Acquisition Portal
Ask A Professor
PM Toolkit
A one-stop source for acquisition information and tools
Got an acquisition question? Go to the experts!
All the information a program manager could ever ask for in one convenient location
Service Acquisition Mall
Acquisition Community Connection
DAU Media
All the tools and templates one needs to create performance-based service acquisition requirements
Where the DoD and AT&L workforce meets to share knowledge
Video clips from senior leaders on acquisition topics
Knowledge Sharing
DAU's three primary components of knowledge sharing are the Defense Acquisition Portal (DAP), the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC), and the DAU Knowledge Repository (Acker Library).
The DAP provides access to online, searchable acquisition regulations and policy documents; an Ask A Professor feature, the Defense Acquisition Guidebook, and the Integrated Framework Chart.
The ACC is the online location where the defense acquisition community meets to obtain information by acquisition interest area and share knowledge through participation in communities of practice.
The DAU on Knowledge Repository (Acker Library) provides online access to collections of periodicals, reports and books related to acquisition.
Supervisors and work group leaders should ensure that their personnel stay connected to DAU’s knowledge sharing assets to ensure they have access to the latest regulations, tools, and acquisition policy information needed to perform their jobs more effectively.
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Acker Library and Knowledge Repository
Better Buying Power
Defense Acquisition Guidebook
The acquisition policy and discretionary best practice guide

12. Professional Development Opportunities
The DAU Alumni Association provides a means for continuing professional growth within the defense acquisition community and helps workforce members meet their continuous learning requirements.
The Association hosts the annual Acquisition Community Symposium and a number of Hot Topic Forums.
You can use this chart to acquaint supervisors and workgroup leaders of the continuing professional development opportunities that these and other professional organizations provide to help meet their continuous learning requirements.
If you are a government employee attending the Defense Acquisition University, you are eligible for a three year free membership in the National Defense Industrial Association.

13. Helping YOU Achieve Better Acquisition Outcomes
Mission Assistance: DAU comes to your organization to provide team training, consulting, and workshops
Learn more at
DAU’s mission assistance program should be of particular interest to supervisors and work group leaders since they are responsible and accountable for organizational performance. Many of them think that DAU is just about training courses. You need to emphasize to them that our faculty have been hired because they have already had very successful careers in acquisition and stand ready to go to local acquisition organizations to provide consulting support or to tailor DAU training materials to address organizational learning gaps.

14. Mission Assistance Portfolio
Focused on high-level AT&L interest areas
“Quick learn” venue
Tailorable
One-on-one
Defense Acquisition Executive Overview Workshop (DAEOW)
Leverages
Survey tools
Consulting
MDAPs/non-MDAPS
Identifies problems
Uses multiple data collection methods
Intensive analyses
Actionable results
Executive Coaching
Helps
Senior Leaders achieve their Extraordinary Futures
Pre-Milestone/Gate Reviews
Preparatory
Serves as a “dry run” opportunity
Team Training
Wide variety of courses (over 40!)
Intended for cohort groups
Ideal for on-site workplace setting
Some can be tailored
Outcome-based
MA Targeted Training List.aspx
Various Workshops
“Hands-on” and collaborative
Either activity or
event-based
Spotlights major challenges ahead
Solution-based
This chart lists the types of mission assistance DAU can provide. You don’t need to go into exhaustive detail on each one. Pick the ones that you think would be most relevant to the class you are teaching. Items that should be of interest to most classes include:
**consulting support
**ACQ 450 series of classes that can help your students become more effective supervisors and work group leaders
**rapid deployment training on latest AT&L policies such as Better Buying Power and the new 5000 series
Note: if you get a question about executive coaching, you should let the student know that this resource is typically made available to O6/GS15 and higher who are in very responsible acquisition positions

15. Mission Assistance Workshops “Hands-on” and collaborative
(SAW)
Workshops
“Hands-on” and collaborative
Either activity or event-based
Spotlights major challenges ahead
Solution-based
Workshop Types
Service Acquisition Workshops
Acquisition Program Transition Workshops
Program Termination Workshops
Systems Eng Plan Workshops
Risk Management Workshops
Technology Transition Workshops
Depot Activation Workshops
Engineering Management Workshop (EMW)
This is an optional chart, but is recommended because it provides information on the workshops that have been especially effective in helping organizations improve acquisition outcomes. Training actual (“intact”) work teams on topics that they are currently going through in the workplace is a high priority AT&L senior leadership and is a key task in the DAU Strategic Plan.
You should ask your Associate Dean for Outreach and Mission Assistance for more information or examples of these workshops if you are unsure about this area.

16. Pre-Milestone/Gate Reviews
Mission Assistance
Pre-Milestone/Gate Reviews
Preparatory
Serves as a “dry run” Opportunity
Assessment delivered to PM only
Example 1
Multi-functional DAU teams drawn from experienced faculty ready to provide timely, effective and focused support to Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs)
Wide range of Customer Requests
Demonstrated “outcome improvers”
This is an optional chart that provides additional details on the Acquisition Program Transition Workshops. You should ask your Associate Dean for Outreach and Mission Assistance for more information or examples of these workshops if you are unsure about this area.
Assessment delivered to PM only
Example 2

17. Connect with Our Learning Assets at www.dau.mil
DAU Training & CL Courses
Mission Assistance
Better Buying Power
Defense Acquisition Portal
Acquisition Community Connection
DAU Knowledge Repository
Optional chart. This is a summary chart that provides links to DAU’s major learning assets.
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18. Student Academic Policies & Information
Students should visit the Student Policies and Information page at for information on:
Student Standards of Conduct
Violations of the Standards of Conduct
Course Enrollment, Extensions, and Walk-ins
Disenrollment, Dropping a Course, and Wait Lists
Course Prerequisite/Pre-course Work Requirements
Student Travel
Student Assessment and Evaluation
Student Attrition Codes
Accommodating Students with Disabilities
Transferring Students Between Career Fields (Programs) and from Other Institutions
Test Reset Policy and Procedures
Student Transcripts, Records Retention, and Disclosure of Student Academic Records (Privacy)
Student Complaint/Grievance Procedures
Although you covered some essential student policies as part of the course introduction on Day 1, this chart is an excellent listing of all the resources available to the student on
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The highlight box at the bottom of the chart is a requirement of our Council on Occupational Education (COE) accreditation status, so please make sure you show this chart.
DAU encourages students who have a concern or issue with the learning environment to discuss it with their instructor.
Students who feel their issue is not resolved satisfactorily may go to the department chair/site manager or Regional Associate Dean for Academics.

19. The training you get from DAU… helps you support our warfighters.
This is the “get off the stage” chart for this presentation. It emphasizes that DAU training is important because it:
helps Defense Acquisition Workforce members achieve DAWIA certification
more importantly, DAU training helps workforce members do their acquisition jobs more effectively so they can provide the best products and services cost-effectively and on-time to our ultimate customer: the Warfighter.
The training you get from DAU…
helps you support our warfighters.