ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 On January 6, 1998, the unmanned Lunar Prospector embarked on a one-year lunar polar mission. Its primary objective was to ascertain whether or not water ice was buried inside the lunar crust.
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 U.S News & World Report, in conjunction with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government named Charles Elachi of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as one of “America’s Best Leaders” for 2006. Other honorees include Warren Buffet, Sandra […]
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 A Gallup poll found strong support for the Vision for Space Exploration, with a two-thirds majority (66%) of Americans voicing support for the program.
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 It can be a very uncomfortable feeling to sit in a project team staff meeting and realize that several of your team members view things very differently than you do. The glue that’s missing is team situation awareness, according to Bill O’Keefe of […]
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 Teledyne Brown Engineering and Barrios Technologies received the George M. Low Award, NASA’s highest honor for quality and technical performance in its contractor community, in a ceremony at PM Challenge 2007 in Galveston, Texas.
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 When experts get together to talk risk management, it becomes clear that there are many perspectives on the elusive question of balance. Boeing’s Joy Bryant, Johnson Spaceflight Center’s (JSC) John Shannon, and NASA Headquarters’ Greg Robinson and John Tinsley sat down with moderator Mike […]
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 As the Constellation program moves into high gear, the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) is taking steps to integrate risk and knowledge management through an approach that emphasizes real-time learning as a continuous process. Given that the design and development of the hardware, software, […]
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 PM Challenge 2007 provided a unique opportunity for a roundtable discussion of project management with leaders from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL).
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 Successful project managers understand the importance of never losing sight of the goals of senior management. The standard trio of project management concerns is cost, schedule, and technical performance. What project managers often overlook, however, is that their senior management has a different […]
