Course Description
Transition, Product Delivery and Mission Operations (APPEL-TPDMO)
Audience
This course is designed for NASA’s technical workforce, including systems engineers and project personnel developing the competencies required to succeed as a leader of a project team, functional team, or small project.
Goal
This four-day course is intended to demonstrate the processes, procedures, and strategies necessary to implement effective product development, transition, delivery and operations.
When asked what participants learned that would be most beneficial to their work, they said…
"Better understanding of Comm Sys, things to consider in Ops Con Development, LCC."—GRC, 2007
"Getting a broad overview of space mission operations."—GRC, 2007
Learning Methods
Learning will be through lectures, discussions, group exercises and activities such as actual product development, transition, and discussion of operations problems of all types (with emphasis on NASA missions systems).
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the enabling processes for product development or acquisition.
- Describe the various activities / strategies that support effective product implementation.
- Describe how enabling product readiness is evaluated.
- Identify the importance of validating lower level procured products and preparing the environment for integration.
- Develop a plan for product integration.
- Identify the “active ingredients” of product integration documentation.
- Describe product verification and validation processes and how the outcomes are analyzed and reported, including all the support documentations.
- Identify the various documentations that support product transition.
- Identify product transition processes, procedures, and enabling product needs.
- Explain the importance of operations planning and execution.
- Identify the processes for product operations.
