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Institutionalizing Lessons LearnedThe NASA Integrated Action Team (NIAT) was formed by the NASA Administrator in March 2000. The purpose of this team was to identify the actions that NASA must take to address systemic findings reported in 4 different anomaly investigations. Team membership represented senior managers from all the field centers and NASA Headquarters. NIAT report addressed 165 findings and developed 17 action plans that are described in five themes: people and teams, technology, risk, formulation rigor, and communications. The NIAT actions present a systems solution for strengthening formulation and implementation of programs and improving the environment for their support. NIAT results included: enhancing success by avoiding failures that could have been prevented through good planning and sound practice; ensuring that prudent risks do not compromise safety; and ensuring that mission risks are objectively assessed, appropriately mitigated and consciously accepted by the program team and customers. Definitions of Faster, Better, Cheaper and Success Criteria were also developed and included as part of the NIAT report. As a result of the NIAT report, program and project management process changes were incorporated into NASA's quality system documentation, including NPG 7120.513, "NASA Program and Project Management Processes and Requirements. This paper describes the NIAT results and the resulting updates to NPG 7120.5 that keep this program and project management description a living process.
Document ID
20010021322
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
McBrayer, Robert O.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Thomas, Dale
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2001
Subject Category
Administration And Management
Meeting Information
Meeting: Astronautical Congress
Location: Toulouse
Country: France
Start Date: October 1, 2001
End Date: October 5, 2001
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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