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Ares I-X Roll Control System DevelopmentProject Managers often face challenging technical, schedule and budget issues. This presentation will explore how the Ares I-X Roll Control System Integrated Product Team (IPT) mitigated challenges such as concurrent engineering requirements and environments and evolving program processes, while successfully managing an aggressive project schedule and tight budget. IPT challenges also included communications and negotiations among inter- and intra-government agencies, including the US Air Force, NASA/MSFC Propulsion Engineering, LaRC, GRC, KSC, WSTF, and the Constellation Program. In order to successfully meet these challenges it was essential that the IPT define those items that most affected the schedule critical path, define early mitigation strategies to reduce technical, schedule, and budget risks, and maintain the end-product focus of an "unmanned test flight" context for the flight hardware. The makeup of the IPT and how it would function were also important considerations. The IPT consisted of NASA/MSFC (project management, engineering, and safety/quality) and contractors (Teledyne Brown Engineering and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, who supplied heritage hardware experience). The early decision to have a small focused IPT working "badgelessly" across functional lines to eliminate functional stove-piping allowed for many more tasks to be done by fewer people. It also enhanced a sense of ownership of the products, while still being able to revert back to traditional roles in order to provide the required technical independence in design reviews and verification closures. This presentation will highlight several prominent issues and discuss how they were mitigated and the resulting Lessons Learned that might benefit other projects.
Document ID
20100009719
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Unger, Ronald J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Massey, Edmund C.
(Teledyne Brown Engineering Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
February 9, 2009
Subject Category
Administration And Management
Report/Patent Number
M09-0667
Meeting Information
Meeting: Project Management Challenge 2010
Location: Galveston, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: February 9, 2010
End Date: February 10, 2010
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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