Organization: HQ

By Terry Little The traditional view of career development in the government goes something like this: Start your career as a functional apprentice.

By Wendy Dolci In July, the Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL) conducted a two-week class in Advanced Project Management at Ames Research Center.

By Jeanne M. Holm The NASA Web portal we had designed was exactly what we felt that NASA management wanted: a new face for the Agency, engaging, interactive, and upbeat; a real change from the staid, informational Web site that NASA had already.

By Frank Larsen The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is one of the biggest aircraft shows in the world, and it is also a huge public relations event for NASA.

By Marty Davis Every project has its stories. The ones we usually want to tell are the outright success stories — but the ones we also need to hear are the “things we did wrong and should have known better.”

By Dr. Owen Gadeken The scene was all too familiar to me: a new leader with a new project. Gone were my days as a manager on Air Force missile development projects.

By Tom Young In 1971, I was working on the Viking program when my center director, Ed Cortright, recommended that I accept an offer to become an MIT Sloan Fellow.

By Dr. Alexander Laufer Things are supposed to work a certain way — and then there’s what really happens.

By Ed Hoffman Saturday morning and I could be at the gym, doing something healthy. Instead, I’m sweating away as I perform surgery on my Dell computer.