HOPE Lessons Learned
SOMA Lessons Learned
- Look out for aggressive schedules or large amount of scope because need to make sure there is time for learning
- Need 1-2 month for staffing
- 1 month for team building and process building
- Time to attend classes and workshops
- Time to redo work
- Key team members should attend APPL classes preferably before start of project:
- Project Management
- Systems Engineering
- Resource Management
Program Office Lessons Learned
- Mentors need roles defined to ensure involvement
- Assessment at major reviews and description of involvement
- Regular meetings with team members and attend meetings
- Help develop team processes with partners – start at kickoff retreat
- Work with team to tailor 7120.5. Sign off on final tailored approach
- May consider deliverables for the mentors to help drive appropriate involvement, especially early to help with tailoring 7120.5 requirements and identifying risks
- Require a kickoff retreat with the team and mentors to outline roles, responsibilities, processes and interaction, which should be led by center mentors
- Make sure all necessary 7120.5 reviews are performed, but may be able to make some reviews less formal. Should probably look at making PDR a formal review or at least review programmatics at PDR and hold KDP-C at the PDR time frame.
Project Lessons Learned
- Ensure mentors are involved, performing center could consider some sort of reporting or formal interactions
- Hold a kickoff retreat to understand roles, responsibilities and processes right after team is formed
- Mentors should help facilitate this meeting
- Make sure partners scope of work is well understood and is acceptable
- Start staffing the team early because it will take time
- Work with Mentors to tailor 7120.5E
- Make sure learning is built into the schedule
- Project planning at a detailed level is good project management, ensuring that the project has an appropriate schedule that represents the total project and is manageable
Future HOPE Announcement Lessons Learned
- Define roles of mentors in announcement
- Key team members attend APPEL classes as prerequisite for HOPE?