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NASA Risk Management HandbookThe purpose of this handbook is to provide guidance for implementing the Risk Management (RM) requirements of NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) document NPR 8000.4A, Agency Risk Management Procedural Requirements [1], with a specific focus on programs and projects, and applying to each level of the NASA organizational hierarchy as requirements flow down. This handbook supports RM application within the NASA systems engineering process, and is a complement to the guidance contained in NASA/SP-2007-6105, NASA Systems Engineering Handbook [2]. Specifically, this handbook provides guidance that is applicable to the common technical processes of Technical Risk Management and Decision Analysis established by NPR 7123.1A, NASA Systems Engineering Process and Requirements [3]. These processes are part of the \Systems Engineering Engine. (Figure 1) that is used to drive the development of the system and associated work products to satisfy stakeholder expectations in all mission execution domains, including safety, technical, cost, and schedule. Like NPR 7123.1A, NPR 8000.4A is a discipline-oriented NPR that intersects with product-oriented NPRs such as NPR 7120.5D, NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Requirements [4]; NPR 7120.7, NASA Information Technology and Institutional Infrastructure Program and Project Management Requirements [5]; and NPR 7120.8, NASA Research and Technology Program and Project Management Requirements [6]. In much the same way that the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook is intended to provide guidance on the implementation of NPR 7123.1A, this handbook is intended to provide guidance on the implementation of NPR 8000.4A. 1.2 Scope and Depth This handbook provides guidance for conducting RM in the context of NASA program and project life cycles, which produce derived requirements in accordance with existing systems engineering practices that flow down through the NASA organizational hierarchy. The guidance in this handbook is not meant to be prescriptive. Instead, it is meant to be general enough, and contain a sufficient diversity of examples, to enable the reader to adapt the methods as needed to the particular risk management issues that he or she faces. The handbook highlights major issues to consider when managing programs and projects in the presence of potentially significant uncertainty, so that the user is better able to recognize and avoid pitfalls that might otherwise be experienced.
Document ID
20120000033
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Special Publication (SP)
Authors
Dezfuli, Homayoon
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Benjamin, Allan
(Information Systems Labs., Inc. United States)
Everett, Christopher
(Information Systems Labs., Inc. United States)
Maggio, Gaspare
(Information Systems Labs., Inc. United States)
Stamatelatos, Michael
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Youngblood, Robert
(Idaho National Lab. Idaho Falls, ID, United States)
Guarro, Sergio
(Aerospace Corp. United States)
Rutledge, Peter
(Quality Assurance and Risk Management Services United States)
Sherrard, James
(Information Systems Labs., Inc. United States)
Smith, Curtis
(Idaho National Lab. Idaho Falls, ID, United States)
Williams, Rodney
(Information Systems Labs., Inc. United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 2011
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Report/Patent Number
NASA/SP-2011-3422-Version-1.0
HQ-STI-11-205
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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