CPIC Immersion

CPIC Immersion™

focused collaboration – practical results

CPIC Immersion™ education offerings are designed to accelerate the professional development of your people through a faster, more practical learning experience. CPIC ImmersionTM sessions apply the appropriate analytical software applications, within a best-practice process framework, under the guidance of CPIC Subject Matter Experts to strive for the perfect learning-laboratory experience. CPIC ImmersionTM sessions improve on the traditional class-room seminars, or on-line training programs by creating “near on-the-job training” environments.

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1-day program designed to build on your CPIC knowledge and skills. It features individual subject matter expert instructors covering topics related to elements of the Capital Planning and Investment Control life cycle. It is designed to emphasize interaction between you and the session leaders, and is limited to a small group of attendees.

Overview of Complete Immersion™ Program and Offerings

CPIC Immersion™ offerings are designed by CPIC subject matter experts to address the unique business issues your people, and your organization face in each of the four CPIC life cycle phases –

Pre-Select Phase CPIC Immersion™ sessions –

address processes and issues related to the concept exploration and formulation of new ideas for programs, or for proposed enhancements and improvements to fielded systems. In either case, the candidate investment will represent one of many possible technical or organizational solutions to your Agency's requirements. of defining candidate investment alternatives to meet agency mission needs. Pre-Select Phase Immersion™ sessions tackle the fundamentals that build the foundation for reliable and repeatable solution assessment - program structures, designing for results, benefits and resource estimating and dealing with risk and uncertainty.

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Select Phase CPIC Immersion™ sessions –

address the business decision making and analysis tools available to prioritize, budget, & authorize the investment portfolio aligned to agency performance requirements. We approach this phase of activity from first principles - that the "results-driven" investment portfolio requires the best possible decisions to be make at the time when scarce resources are being allocated. And these require reliable inputs to the decision process ranging from risk-adjusted life-cycle benefits analysis, life-cycle cost estimates, technical and financial alternatives analysis to quantitative and qualitative risk assessment and analysis.

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Control Phase CPIC Immersion™ sessions –

address practical considerations and processes essential to match best-practice-based acquisition baseline planning and control featuring Earned Value Management and Technical Performance Measurement to variable program complexities and oversight requirements. Control Phase Immersion sessions cover the process and technical knowledge essential to bringing the benefits of best practices such as those outlined in the GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide to your organization. We place heavy emphasis on the importance of establishing and using continuity between the processes and artifacts used to conceive and authorize investments; and the processes and tools used to manage related acquisition and deployment projects.

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Evaluation Phase CPIC Immersion™ sessions –

address the processes and analytical techniques essential to disciplined post-implementation performance planning, measurement and reporting. With the objective to learn how to maximize benefits from deployed investments, Evaluation Phase Immersion™ sessions cover the important elements of post-implementation reviews and operational Analysis and Reporting. But they also go further to address processes and techniques needed to plan and measure performance results of initial deployment, plan for the measured expansion of enhanced services, and assess effectiveness versus replacement for ageing systems.

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Multi-Phase CPIC Immersion™ sessions –

address the processes and analytical techniques that cut across one or more specific phases of the CPIC management life cycle. Multi-phase CPIC Immersions are often designed for those events or audiences limited by time and schedule constraints. While time is condensed, the sesions are designed to incorporate as much content and pracyical value by focusing on actual experiences and case studies.

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