March 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 3 Tolstoy wrote: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same holds true for partnerships on NASA missions.
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July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 All successful projects are team efforts, and our learning strategies have to reflect that.
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 NASA Associate Administrator Chris Scolese prepared the following remarks to recognize the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the Apollo 11 crew members spoke at the National Air & Space Museum.
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 NASA Associate Administrator Chris Scolese and Chief Engineer Mike Ryschkewitsch spoke to Academy Director Ed Hoffman in the first session of “Masters with Masters.”
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 The federal government’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled the government’s IT Dashboard website to monitor the status and effectiveness of government information technology (IT) system spending.
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 Performance pressure can be a critical barrier to a team’s effective use of knowledge, according to a working paper by Heidi K. Gardner of Harvard Business School.
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 Cultural differences in work pressure levels and aggression between Russian and American crewmembers and mission controllers can affect team performance on long-duration space missions, according to a new joint study by the University of California / San Francisco and the Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow.
July 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 7 Academy Director Dr. Ed Hoffman spoke at the 23rd IPMA (International Project Management Association) World Congress in Helsinki, Finland on June 16, 2009 about the role of a project academy in an organization dedicated to complex projects.