At Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Equipment Test Facility, I learned the hard way that supposedly bulletproof designs are not necessarily as trouble-free as they may appear.
Chief Knowledge Officer Ed Hoffman moderated a lively discussion with two master practitioners at NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC).
I’m not sure that the decisions I made as operations manager of the Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) program nearly three decades ago were necessarily mistakes, but the problems that ultimately killed the OMV were certainly real.
Anyone who has ever had the courage to go out into the world and do something knows there are only two kinds of mistakes: ones we can recover from and ones we cannot recover from.
NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO), NASA knowledge community, and project and program practitioners are invited to a unique knowledge sharing conference at Johnson Space Center (JSC), April 27 – 29, 2015.
NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) was recognized as the global leader in project management training.
I found out the hard way that some of the things you learn in school don’t hold up in the real world.
The original Star Trek episode “Spock’s Brain” is not as well-ranked or well-starred as the fuzzball populated “Trouble with Tribbles.”
