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NASA in the News NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first discovery of a planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.

By Laurence Prusak Every once in a while, some U.S. or other government agency or a nongovernmental organization issues a report that is actually very useful and—dare I say it—even startling in its implications.

January 26, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 1   Given the complexity of projects today, the limits of hindsight, and the human inability to predict the future, is strategy a waste of time?

January 26, 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1   Landing a man on the moon and safely returning him to Earth before the end of the decade came down to choosing the best strategy.

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10   Project managers need the right resources — including the talent — at the beginning of the project, not the end.

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10   Too high for weather balloons, too low for satellites, the “ignorosphere” can’t hide from the TIMED mission, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its launch this month. We’re all a little less ignorant about what lies 40-110 miles above us, thanks to the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics […]

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10   Infrastructure is all around us, and yet most of us rarely give it a second thought.

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10   Academy Director Dr. Ed Hoffman met with representatives of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to discuss an international agreement on project manager and workforce development.

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10   TDRS K project manager Jeff Gramling shared some thoughts with ASK the Academy on managing a communications satellite project.