This two-day course will use a threaded case study to help participants define and utilize effective mental models to analyze and respond to challenges arising across the project lifecycle. Challenges from the following contexts will be addressed: systems thinking context, technical baseline context, and project management/safety and mission assurance context. This will be accomplished by immersing participants in strategic and tactical program and project lessons learned spanning systems engineering, project management and safety and mission assurance, as well as technically-detailed topics. Through guided exercises and discussions, participants will be challenged to critically evaluate problems and solutions that have been faced by NASA, United States Department of Defense and industry project teams. Emphasis will be placed on evaluating the context for issues and the development of courses of action along with the consequences of decisions.
This course is designed for team practitioners/technical engineers, team/subsystem leads, project managers/project systems engineers and program managers/chief engineers. All attendees should have a basic understanding of NPR 7123.1 and NPR 7120.5
Project Management Competencies
- PM 1.0 - Project Proposal
- PM 3.0 - Requirements Development and Management
- PM 4.0 - Acquisition Management
- PM 5.0 - Project Planning
- PM 6.0 – Cost Estimating
- PM 7.0 - Risk Management
- PM 8.0 - Earned Value Management
- PM 9.0 - Safety and Mission Assurance
- PM 10.0 - Project Lifecycle
- PM 11.0 - Budget and Resource Management
- PM 12.0 - Contract Management
- PM 13.0 - Systems Engineering
Common Competencies
- C 1.2 - NASA Project Management/Systems Engineering Procedures and Guidelines
- C 2.1 - Staffing and Performance
- C 2.2 - Team Dynamics and Management
- C 3.3 - Safety and Mission Assurance
- C 4.2 - Communication
- C 4.3 – Leadership
Systems Engineering Competencies
- SE 1.1 - Stakeholder Expectation Definition & Management
- SE 1.2 - Technical Requirements Definition
- SE 1.3 - Logical Decomposition
- SE 1.4 - Design Solution Definition
- SE 2.1 - Product Implementation
- SE 2.2 - Product Integration
- SE 2.5 - Product Transition
- SE 3.1 - Technical Planning
- SE 3.2 - Requirements Management
- SE 3.4 - Technical Risk Management
- SE 3.7 - Technical Assessment
- SE 3.8 - Technical Decision Analysis
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All supplemental resources are NASA accessible only unless otherwise noted.
