Andrew Chaikin discusses the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that led to Apollo’s worst day—the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in January 1967—as well as those modes of behavior that allowed NASA to recover from the accident and accomplish Apollo 11’s lunar landing in July 1969.
In this session, we focused on how effective managers achieve their goals even when their projects face ambiguity, volatility and challenges.
Large, complex missions have long development timeframes that often increase the challenges associated with budget, schedule, risk and reviews. In this VPMC session, associate administrators of two NASA mission directorates will share lessons learned from large projects.
In this VPMC, NASA systems engineers illustrated how they successfully applied their habits to their project work and how others might develop their project management competencies.
Watch recorded July 26, 2018 session.
