THE PROGRAM MANAGER’S BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Rights:
Program Managers have the RIGHT to:
• a single, clear line of authority from the Defense Acquisition Executive;
• authority commensurate with their responsibilities;
• timely senior leadership decisions;
• be candid and forthcoming without fear of personal consequences;
• speak for their program and have their judgments respected;
• receive the best available training and experience for the job; and
• be given adequate financial and personnel resources.
Responsibilities:
Program Managers have the RESPONSIBILITY to:
• accept program direction from acquisition executives and implement it expeditiously and conscientiously;
• manage their programs to the best of their abilities within approved resources;
• be customer-focused and provide the user with the best, most cost effective systems or capabilities;
• innovate, strive for optimal solutions, seek better ways to manage, and provide lessons-learned to those who follow;
• be candid about program status, including risks and problems as well as potential solutions and likely outcomes;
• prepare thorough estimates of financial and personnel resources that will be required to manage the program; and
• identify weaknesses in the acquisition process and propose solutions.
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Preface
This Sixteenth Edition (version 1.0) of the DAU Program Managers Tool Kit contains a graphic summary of acquisition policies and managerial skills frequently required by DoD program managers. It is a current version of a “Tool Box” that was first developed by Charles F. Schied of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Program Management Course (PMC) 92-1. The information in the Tool Kit is extracted from DAU course material and is based on DoDD 5000.01 (May 12, 2003), DoDI 5000.02 (December 8, 2008), the Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG), (August 5, 2010), CJCSI 6212.01E (December 15, 2008), CJCSI 3170.01G (March 1, 2009), the Joint Capabilities Integration
and Development System Manual (July 31, 2009), and the Weapon
Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Material from the DAU Acker Library and Knowledge Repository was also used. Since the DAU Program Managers Tool Kit is a compilation of classroom presentation and teaching materials used in a number of different courses at DAU, the charts and tables vary in look and feel. Users of the Tool Kit are reminded that this summary is a guide only and should not be used as a substitute for official policy guidance. Periodic review of official policy guidance is recommended. An e-Toolkit has been developed which contains current updated acquisition guidance and direction (https://pmtoolkit.dau.mil). This (“hardcopy”) Tool Kit is current as of January 1, 2011 and is extracted from the e-Tool Kit. The hard copy Tool Kit can be found at http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/pages/tool%20kit.aspx.