Critical Knowledge Insight

Out-of-house work brings some specific challenges for a NASA project manager.

Psychological safety and intentional meeting design and execution are important elements for collecting diverse ideas from your team.

Team leads have a responsibility to help position their team to be successful.

New technologies and their risks are difficult to characterize and provide important opportunities for lessons learned and process improvements.

Small projects have unique characteristics that should be closely observed to help achieve a successful outcome.

A program/project manager should spend time building relationships and interacting with their team in the work environment.

A project manager can build resilience skills to perform better on the job.

An important leadership skill is to be able to recognize your strengths and limitations and obtain guidance from the right experts.

A resilient project manager stays flexible and open to making changes when adversity or opportunities affect a project.