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By Terry Little For as long as I can remember, we in the Department of Defense have based our development programs on user requirements.

By W. Scott Cameron “Seductive” is a word rarely associated with project management. An expression like “24/7,” on the other hand, is all too familiar.

By Claire Smith I come from a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania — from a culture and a community where in order to get your needs met, you had to be an activist.

By Dr. Kenneth L. Atkins I served nine years in the Air Force, and I had the good fortune to become a pilot during that time.

By Dave Stickel A few years ago, I was managing a project whose scope included the addition of several new unit operations to existing production lines.

By Dan Gundo Recently, I worked on creating a one-of-a-kind device for a Space Station group studying exercise physiology at another NASA Center.

By James Barrowman “It’s the wrong thing to be doing,” I told the Director of Engineering, trying to head off a last-minute change in our X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) project.

By Christian Zazzali I build a project a hundred times in my head before we start work on it. I put formal plans into writing, but I also try to work through every scenario I can think of in advance to have everything lined up like dominoes, with all the details in place.

By Dr. Alexander Laufer Research is about discovery. Sometimes, if we let it, research can shake our core beliefs.