NASA's IT infrastructure requires significant changes to improve security, enable collaboration across centers, and reduce costs. The key initiatives include consolidating networks, applications, and data centers; establishing governance and financial controls; and defining core IT services delivered by the CIO. This transformation will improve integration and security while achieving efficiencies to better support NASA's mission.
The Coast-to-Coast Ground and Mission Operations Systems Integration Group was formed in 2006 to provide horizontal and vertical integration across the Constellation Program. Since then, the group has undergone leadership changes and organizational transfers but has relied on virtual collaboration tools to effectively communicate and work together from different locations. This document discusses how the group uses tools like email, teleconferences, an online wiki site and virtual meetings to collaborate and achieve their goals in an integrated manner despite being geographically dispersed.
The NASA Ames Research Center has developed a scaled project management framework for IT projects under $500k based on NASA's NPR 7120.7. The framework includes Lite and Medium classifications to provide flexibility and structure for smaller projects. It establishes common project reviews, entrance and success criteria, and decision points for projects below the NPR 7120.7 threshold. The framework is designed to standardize project management practices while allowing tailoring to individual project needs.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft's Project 2007 Server with Project Web Access. It discusses the key components of the Enterprise Project Management system including Project Server 2007, Project Professional 2007, and Project Web Access. It also summarizes Jacobs' customization of the system with templates and views tailored for NASA projects. Project Web Access is highlighted as providing specialized views and reports to facilitate collaboration among project stakeholders.
Tietronix automated the control board configuration process (CCB) at NASA using business process management (BPM). The automated process reduced labor costs by 25% while improving compliance, communication, and process customization. Lessons learned included modeling the existing manual process, deploying via an execution tool to gather feedback, and continuously improving. Automating human-centric processes using BPM was found to increase productivity at other organizations as well. NASA projects were identified as good candidates for BPM given their emphasis on documentation, compliance, and process improvement.
This document discusses how to effectively manage technology development efforts using program management principles and standards. While technology development requires flexibility and agility, there are also constants like cost, schedule, and risk that need management. The key is tailoring standards to the specific program by focusing on the essential processes needed for success and communicating those processes clearly. This allows technology development to benefit from discipline without hindering innovation.
The document discusses challenges facing the Systems and Software Engineering Directorate within the Department of Defense. It outlines the Directorate's vision, mission, and responsibilities, which include providing technical advice on programs, establishing acquisition policies, and managing the systems engineering career field. The document also discusses key challenges programs face related to requirements, risk management, and reliability. It proposes ways the Directorate can better support programs early in the acquisition process through workshops, guidance updates, and collaboration tools.
The document discusses the role of in-house consulting at NASA. It proposes that staff offices at NASA centers can take on the perspective of internal consultants by understanding project manager needs, interpreting policies, developing expertise, and providing ongoing support. This would help staff offices maintain relevance and justify their roles, rather than focusing only on processes. Examples are provided of how NASA Goddard's Policy and Standards Office takes a consulting approach to activities like Integrated Baseline Reviews. Potential benefits include improved consistency, training, and cultural alignment across NASA. Risks of undesirable roles like being an "enforcer" or "going native" are also discussed.
This document discusses leading indicators for systems engineering. It begins by outlining the concepts and motivation behind measuring leading indicators. It then describes a project to develop a set of 13 leading indicators to assess how effectively a program is performing systems engineering. These indicators are defined to provide predictive insights before impacts are realized. The document discusses challenges in implementing and interpreting leading indicators and mapping them to different life cycle phases. It notes that validating leading indicators is difficult as companies are reluctant to share information, and that leading indicators can be dismissed as similar to existing metrics.
The Coast-to-Coast Ground and Mission Operations Systems Integration Group was formed in 2006 to provide horizontal and vertical integration across the Constellation Program. Since then, the group has undergone leadership changes and organizational transfers but has relied on virtual collaboration tools to effectively communicate and work together from different locations. This document discusses how the group uses tools like email, teleconferences, an online wiki site and virtual meetings to collaborate and achieve their goals in an integrated manner despite being geographically dispersed.
The NASA Ames Research Center has developed a scaled project management framework for IT projects under $500k based on NASA's NPR 7120.7. The framework includes Lite and Medium classifications to provide flexibility and structure for smaller projects. It establishes common project reviews, entrance and success criteria, and decision points for projects below the NPR 7120.7 threshold. The framework is designed to standardize project management practices while allowing tailoring to individual project needs.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft's Project 2007 Server with Project Web Access. It discusses the key components of the Enterprise Project Management system including Project Server 2007, Project Professional 2007, and Project Web Access. It also summarizes Jacobs' customization of the system with templates and views tailored for NASA projects. Project Web Access is highlighted as providing specialized views and reports to facilitate collaboration among project stakeholders.
Tietronix automated the control board configuration process (CCB) at NASA using business process management (BPM). The automated process reduced labor costs by 25% while improving compliance, communication, and process customization. Lessons learned included modeling the existing manual process, deploying via an execution tool to gather feedback, and continuously improving. Automating human-centric processes using BPM was found to increase productivity at other organizations as well. NASA projects were identified as good candidates for BPM given their emphasis on documentation, compliance, and process improvement.
This document discusses how to effectively manage technology development efforts using program management principles and standards. While technology development requires flexibility and agility, there are also constants like cost, schedule, and risk that need management. The key is tailoring standards to the specific program by focusing on the essential processes needed for success and communicating those processes clearly. This allows technology development to benefit from discipline without hindering innovation.
The document discusses challenges facing the Systems and Software Engineering Directorate within the Department of Defense. It outlines the Directorate's vision, mission, and responsibilities, which include providing technical advice on programs, establishing acquisition policies, and managing the systems engineering career field. The document also discusses key challenges programs face related to requirements, risk management, and reliability. It proposes ways the Directorate can better support programs early in the acquisition process through workshops, guidance updates, and collaboration tools.
The document discusses the role of in-house consulting at NASA. It proposes that staff offices at NASA centers can take on the perspective of internal consultants by understanding project manager needs, interpreting policies, developing expertise, and providing ongoing support. This would help staff offices maintain relevance and justify their roles, rather than focusing only on processes. Examples are provided of how NASA Goddard's Policy and Standards Office takes a consulting approach to activities like Integrated Baseline Reviews. Potential benefits include improved consistency, training, and cultural alignment across NASA. Risks of undesirable roles like being an "enforcer" or "going native" are also discussed.
This document discusses leading indicators for systems engineering. It begins by outlining the concepts and motivation behind measuring leading indicators. It then describes a project to develop a set of 13 leading indicators to assess how effectively a program is performing systems engineering. These indicators are defined to provide predictive insights before impacts are realized. The document discusses challenges in implementing and interpreting leading indicators and mapping them to different life cycle phases. It notes that validating leading indicators is difficult as companies are reluctant to share information, and that leading indicators can be dismissed as similar to existing metrics.
The document outlines an architecture for a cost analytics process that includes capturing cost data in a database from various project phases and cost types, iterating the data through multiple estimation events, and using the stored data and associated schedule information to perform cost analytics and reporting across the project lifecycle. It details the types of fundamental cost and schedule data to be collected, how the data will be iterated through estimation events, and tools that can be used to analyze and report on the stored cost data.
The document summarizes a case study using systems engineering models to plan the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission for NASA's Orion spacecraft. Key points:
- EFT-1 will test Orion capabilities before crewed flights, including separations, parachutes, attitude control during reentry, and water recovery.
- Systems engineering models were used to understand data and resource needs, flows, and access across distributed NASA/Lockheed Martin teams.
- Custom viewpoints were defined in SysML to address stakeholder questions and visualize mission elements like components, data exchanges, and interface requirements.
The document outlines NASA's plan to improve its implementation of internal controls as required by OMB Circular A-123. It proposes changes to NASA's governance structure including making the Director of the Office of Program and Institutional Integration (OPII) the chair of the Senior Assessment Team to better integrate controls across the agency. The plan is to assess internal controls at more discrete "assessable units" and have program managers work closely with institutional counterparts to ensure requirements are met.
This document provides an overview of recent policy developments in NASA's program and project management. It discusses revisions made between 2007 and 2009 to requirements documents regarding space flight, IT, acquisition and risk management. Upcoming changes to NPR 7120.5 are also previewed, including potential revisions to the joint confidence level and baseline policies for establishing cost and schedule commitments. The purpose is to improve performance by increasing accountability, clarity and alignment of planning and budgeting processes.
The document discusses the importance of establishing an integrated cost and schedule baseline in the earned value management process. It describes a systematic planning process involving multiple phases that results in key planning documents and an integrated baseline. The planning process involves defining the project scope, organizing the work breakdown structure, scheduling tasks, estimating costs, and negotiating and approving the performance measurement baseline.
This document provides an overview of an approach for right sizing design review plans for projects and programs. It discusses establishing a multi-tiered review approach including technical and peer reviews of lower-level design products, component design reviews, subsystem design reviews, and system-level reviews. It emphasizes the importance of planning the review approach, defining objectives and participation for each review level, and using lessons learned to improve efficiency while maintaining thoroughness.
Follow a defined process to develop the baseline schedule through iterative planning. Rushing the process can result in an inaccurate baseline schedule.
This document discusses NASA's Earned Value Management (EVM) capability project. It outlines the overarching EVM requirements for NASA, including compliance with ANSI/EIA-748 guidelines. It describes NASA's development of a common EVM process and its testing on two pilot projects. The rollout plan and available EVM resources are also summarized. Maintaining the integrity of the EVM process through surveillance is highlighted as a key ongoing activity.
This document discusses the development and validation of an Earned Value Management (EVM) system at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It outlines the key components of developing the EVM system, including establishing the architecture, implementing the necessary tools and processes, and providing education and training. It also describes validating the system through progress assistance visits and a formal validation review. The document shares lessons learned around implementing an effective EVM system.
This document discusses integrated predictive performance management as a method for effective project management. It involves developing an integrated baseline for technical scope, schedule, and budget that serves as a shared plan. Performance is measured by comparing work completed to the baseline. This allows for predicting future performance and taking early actions to positively impact outcomes. Benefits include integrated performance measurement, a disciplined planning methodology, and improved visibility, accountability, and risk management. The key is for projects to own their baselines which are then status reported and maintained through a change control process.
The document discusses how configuration management (CM) helps projects innovate and communicate. It compares project management and CM processes, and describes traditional CM versus CM II approaches. It also outlines two project management models - Kepner-Tregoe and Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. CM expands on these models by managing both requirements definition and physical project tasks in synchronized cycles. The document argues that CM helps address common problems that cause project failures, such as poor communication, requirements, documentation, and change control. CM is positioned to support the entire project management process.
The Space and Life Sciences Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center faced challenges with their configuration control board processes that were labor intensive and not fully compliant with new configuration management standards. They tasked Tietronix to automate the processes using a new process-centric software system called BPSCM. BPSCM streamlined the processes, increased compliance and productivity, and led to rapid adoption across the directorate and other organizations. Within a few years, over 45 boards were using BPSCM, institutionalizing the processes and improving management visibility.
The document discusses balancing NASA's portfolio within tight budgets between successful programs and maintaining institutional capabilities. It addresses whether programs and institutions are competing priorities or if a competitive environment is healthy. It also questions if NASA can succeed with only one or the other. The document also notes challenges around effectively managing NASA's aging infrastructure portfolio, given it controls over 5,400 buildings and structures. Finally, it outlines NASA's budget formulation process and timeline, which allows only a small window for integrating program and institutional budgets.
This document discusses the challenges of partnering on major research platforms and facilities. It notes that the high costs and complexity of such projects have driven increased partnering between U.S. agencies and with international entities. However, ensuring alignment between partner processes and practices can be challenging. The document analyzes the practices of three science agencies - DOE, NASA, and NSF - to identify similarities and differences in their approaches to developing and managing large science projects. Understanding these comparative practices is important for facilitating effective interagency and international cooperation on major research infrastructure initiatives.
This document discusses coordination challenges for developing complex aerospace systems across dispersed global teams. It outlines how traditional project management approaches are insufficient due to workforce thinning, varying work practices, and high subsystem interdependencies. The authors propose using collaborative visualization and simulation tools to model projects, forecast coordination needs, and integrate information architectures into practices. This improves situational awareness, reduces waste, and leads to more accurate schedules compared to traditional methods.
This document provides an overview of NASA's software engineering benchmarking effort from February 2012. It discusses the background and motivation for the benchmarking, the organizations that were benchmarked, and the benchmarking team. It then summarizes some of the key learnings around training, testing, acquisition, small projects/processes, and the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The document finds that mentoring is important for training, testing practices vary, acquisition of software requirements can be improved, tailoring is needed for small projects, and that CMMI adoption provides benefits like improved cost estimation and manageability.
The document describes a project management toolkit developed by NASA Glenn Research Center to help with space flight projects. The toolkit provides a collection of standardized project planning and management tools accessible through a web portal. It aims to facilitate rigorous and compliant project proposal, planning, execution, and control according to NASA requirements and best practices. The development of the operational toolkit was driven by a strategic goal of delivering project management excellence for successful customer missions.
This document discusses changes to NASA's business practices for managing projects, including adopting a new acquisition strategy approach and implementing planning, programming, and budget execution (PPBE). The new acquisition strategy involves additional approval meetings at the strategic planning and project levels to better integrate acquisition with strategic and budgetary planning. PPBE focuses on analyzing programs and infrastructure to align with strategic goals and answer whether proposed programs will help achieve NASA's mission. The document also notes improvements in funds distribution and inter-center transfers, reducing the time for these processes from several weeks to only a few days.
Estimation and planning processes are critical for project success. Poor estimates can lead to cost overruns, schedule delays, and project failures. There are various estimation methods, each with advantages and limitations. Initial estimates are often too optimistic due to cognitive biases, pressure to win contracts, and lack of understanding of complexity and risk. Accurate and realistic estimates require a repeatable process using historical data and parametric modeling to avoid common challenges like underestimating requirements and resources.
The document discusses integrating technical performance measures with earned value management. It argues that EVM data is only reliable if technical performance is objectively assessed using the right measures of progress. Standards like CMMI and IEEE 1220 provide guidance on using requirements, product metrics, and success criteria to evaluate technical progress. The document provides examples of how to calculate earned value by linking it to completion of drawings and meeting technical performance targets for weight and diameter. It recommends acquisition best practices like requiring technical performance measurement in proposals and verifying integration at contract award and reviews.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis program which tested two prototype expandable spacecraft, Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, launched in 2006 and 2007 respectively. The objectives were to demonstrate inflation and deployment in low Earth orbit and evaluate technologies for expandable space habitats. Both spacecraft successfully deployed and provided data on systems performance over multiple years in the space environment. Lessons learned informed improvements to Genesis 2 and will enable future crewed vehicles like Sundancer and BA Standard.
The document outlines an architecture for a cost analytics process that includes capturing cost data in a database from various project phases and cost types, iterating the data through multiple estimation events, and using the stored data and associated schedule information to perform cost analytics and reporting across the project lifecycle. It details the types of fundamental cost and schedule data to be collected, how the data will be iterated through estimation events, and tools that can be used to analyze and report on the stored cost data.
The document summarizes a case study using systems engineering models to plan the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission for NASA's Orion spacecraft. Key points:
- EFT-1 will test Orion capabilities before crewed flights, including separations, parachutes, attitude control during reentry, and water recovery.
- Systems engineering models were used to understand data and resource needs, flows, and access across distributed NASA/Lockheed Martin teams.
- Custom viewpoints were defined in SysML to address stakeholder questions and visualize mission elements like components, data exchanges, and interface requirements.
The document outlines NASA's plan to improve its implementation of internal controls as required by OMB Circular A-123. It proposes changes to NASA's governance structure including making the Director of the Office of Program and Institutional Integration (OPII) the chair of the Senior Assessment Team to better integrate controls across the agency. The plan is to assess internal controls at more discrete "assessable units" and have program managers work closely with institutional counterparts to ensure requirements are met.
This document provides an overview of recent policy developments in NASA's program and project management. It discusses revisions made between 2007 and 2009 to requirements documents regarding space flight, IT, acquisition and risk management. Upcoming changes to NPR 7120.5 are also previewed, including potential revisions to the joint confidence level and baseline policies for establishing cost and schedule commitments. The purpose is to improve performance by increasing accountability, clarity and alignment of planning and budgeting processes.
The document discusses the importance of establishing an integrated cost and schedule baseline in the earned value management process. It describes a systematic planning process involving multiple phases that results in key planning documents and an integrated baseline. The planning process involves defining the project scope, organizing the work breakdown structure, scheduling tasks, estimating costs, and negotiating and approving the performance measurement baseline.
This document provides an overview of an approach for right sizing design review plans for projects and programs. It discusses establishing a multi-tiered review approach including technical and peer reviews of lower-level design products, component design reviews, subsystem design reviews, and system-level reviews. It emphasizes the importance of planning the review approach, defining objectives and participation for each review level, and using lessons learned to improve efficiency while maintaining thoroughness.
Follow a defined process to develop the baseline schedule through iterative planning. Rushing the process can result in an inaccurate baseline schedule.
This document discusses NASA's Earned Value Management (EVM) capability project. It outlines the overarching EVM requirements for NASA, including compliance with ANSI/EIA-748 guidelines. It describes NASA's development of a common EVM process and its testing on two pilot projects. The rollout plan and available EVM resources are also summarized. Maintaining the integrity of the EVM process through surveillance is highlighted as a key ongoing activity.
This document discusses the development and validation of an Earned Value Management (EVM) system at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It outlines the key components of developing the EVM system, including establishing the architecture, implementing the necessary tools and processes, and providing education and training. It also describes validating the system through progress assistance visits and a formal validation review. The document shares lessons learned around implementing an effective EVM system.
This document discusses integrated predictive performance management as a method for effective project management. It involves developing an integrated baseline for technical scope, schedule, and budget that serves as a shared plan. Performance is measured by comparing work completed to the baseline. This allows for predicting future performance and taking early actions to positively impact outcomes. Benefits include integrated performance measurement, a disciplined planning methodology, and improved visibility, accountability, and risk management. The key is for projects to own their baselines which are then status reported and maintained through a change control process.
The document discusses how configuration management (CM) helps projects innovate and communicate. It compares project management and CM processes, and describes traditional CM versus CM II approaches. It also outlines two project management models - Kepner-Tregoe and Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. CM expands on these models by managing both requirements definition and physical project tasks in synchronized cycles. The document argues that CM helps address common problems that cause project failures, such as poor communication, requirements, documentation, and change control. CM is positioned to support the entire project management process.
The Space and Life Sciences Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center faced challenges with their configuration control board processes that were labor intensive and not fully compliant with new configuration management standards. They tasked Tietronix to automate the processes using a new process-centric software system called BPSCM. BPSCM streamlined the processes, increased compliance and productivity, and led to rapid adoption across the directorate and other organizations. Within a few years, over 45 boards were using BPSCM, institutionalizing the processes and improving management visibility.
The document discusses balancing NASA's portfolio within tight budgets between successful programs and maintaining institutional capabilities. It addresses whether programs and institutions are competing priorities or if a competitive environment is healthy. It also questions if NASA can succeed with only one or the other. The document also notes challenges around effectively managing NASA's aging infrastructure portfolio, given it controls over 5,400 buildings and structures. Finally, it outlines NASA's budget formulation process and timeline, which allows only a small window for integrating program and institutional budgets.
This document discusses the challenges of partnering on major research platforms and facilities. It notes that the high costs and complexity of such projects have driven increased partnering between U.S. agencies and with international entities. However, ensuring alignment between partner processes and practices can be challenging. The document analyzes the practices of three science agencies - DOE, NASA, and NSF - to identify similarities and differences in their approaches to developing and managing large science projects. Understanding these comparative practices is important for facilitating effective interagency and international cooperation on major research infrastructure initiatives.
This document discusses coordination challenges for developing complex aerospace systems across dispersed global teams. It outlines how traditional project management approaches are insufficient due to workforce thinning, varying work practices, and high subsystem interdependencies. The authors propose using collaborative visualization and simulation tools to model projects, forecast coordination needs, and integrate information architectures into practices. This improves situational awareness, reduces waste, and leads to more accurate schedules compared to traditional methods.
This document provides an overview of NASA's software engineering benchmarking effort from February 2012. It discusses the background and motivation for the benchmarking, the organizations that were benchmarked, and the benchmarking team. It then summarizes some of the key learnings around training, testing, acquisition, small projects/processes, and the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The document finds that mentoring is important for training, testing practices vary, acquisition of software requirements can be improved, tailoring is needed for small projects, and that CMMI adoption provides benefits like improved cost estimation and manageability.
The document describes a project management toolkit developed by NASA Glenn Research Center to help with space flight projects. The toolkit provides a collection of standardized project planning and management tools accessible through a web portal. It aims to facilitate rigorous and compliant project proposal, planning, execution, and control according to NASA requirements and best practices. The development of the operational toolkit was driven by a strategic goal of delivering project management excellence for successful customer missions.
This document discusses changes to NASA's business practices for managing projects, including adopting a new acquisition strategy approach and implementing planning, programming, and budget execution (PPBE). The new acquisition strategy involves additional approval meetings at the strategic planning and project levels to better integrate acquisition with strategic and budgetary planning. PPBE focuses on analyzing programs and infrastructure to align with strategic goals and answer whether proposed programs will help achieve NASA's mission. The document also notes improvements in funds distribution and inter-center transfers, reducing the time for these processes from several weeks to only a few days.
Estimation and planning processes are critical for project success. Poor estimates can lead to cost overruns, schedule delays, and project failures. There are various estimation methods, each with advantages and limitations. Initial estimates are often too optimistic due to cognitive biases, pressure to win contracts, and lack of understanding of complexity and risk. Accurate and realistic estimates require a repeatable process using historical data and parametric modeling to avoid common challenges like underestimating requirements and resources.
The document discusses integrating technical performance measures with earned value management. It argues that EVM data is only reliable if technical performance is objectively assessed using the right measures of progress. Standards like CMMI and IEEE 1220 provide guidance on using requirements, product metrics, and success criteria to evaluate technical progress. The document provides examples of how to calculate earned value by linking it to completion of drawings and meeting technical performance targets for weight and diameter. It recommends acquisition best practices like requiring technical performance measurement in proposals and verifying integration at contract award and reviews.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis program which tested two prototype expandable spacecraft, Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, launched in 2006 and 2007 respectively. The objectives were to demonstrate inflation and deployment in low Earth orbit and evaluate technologies for expandable space habitats. Both spacecraft successfully deployed and provided data on systems performance over multiple years in the space environment. Lessons learned informed improvements to Genesis 2 and will enable future crewed vehicles like Sundancer and BA Standard.
The document discusses NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). [1] EPSCoR aims to strengthen research capabilities in jurisdictions that have not participated equally in aerospace research. [2] It provides seed funding through Research Infrastructure Development awards and Research awards to help jurisdictions develop self-sustaining research capabilities. [3] EPSCoR projects follow standard life cycles and involve multi-project management across jurisdictions and NASA directorates.
This document discusses new paradigms for industrial partnering. It outlines challenges in getting deals for early stage and less commercially interesting technologies, as well as meeting multiple missions with positive cash flow. Best practices are proposed, including integrating licensing with sponsored research, diversifying licensee customer segments, expressing licenses simply, and focusing on regional ecosystems. Worst practices like treating all technologies equally and using only one approach are also discussed.
This document provides a summary of a presentation on guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) best practices for human-rated spacecraft systems. The presentation outlines 22 GN&C best practices, with 15 for early-phase work and 7 for later phases. It also discusses past GN&C-related anomalies on crewed spacecraft and the motivation for establishing best practices to help ensure safe and reliable human-rated spacecraft systems.
The document discusses managing external relations for NASA project managers. It outlines NASA's various customers and stakeholders that managers must communicate with, including other NASA centers, Congress, the media and the public. It then details the speaker's experience managing various NASA projects, like the Space Shuttle Main Engine and the Constellation program. A key lesson is that effective external communication is imperative for managing projects and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
IBM Smarter Business 2012 - PureSystems - PureDataIBM Sverige
1) IBM's PureSystems are expert integrated systems that simplify IT challenges around big data by capturing built-in expertise and deeply integrating hardware and software.
2) PureSystems deliver greater simplicity, speed, and lower cost across the entire IT lifecycle from design to deployment to management through pre-integration and automation.
3) The PureData System delivers optimized data platforms and services for transactions, analytics, and operational analytics workloads through scale-out clusters of DB2, Netezza, and other technologies.
1) The document discusses IBM's PureSystems family of expert integrated systems, which are designed to simplify IT infrastructure and applications through built-in expertise and integration.
2) Key PureSystems products introduced are the PureFlex System for integrated flexible infrastructure and the PureApplication System for a simplified application platform.
3) These systems are said to accelerate time to value through faster setup, deployment and management of virtual machines, applications and infrastructure compared to general purpose components.
De-Risk Data Center Projects With Cisco ServicesCisco Canada
This presentation will discuss Cisco Advanced Services, why to use Cisco Advanced Services and where Cisco Advanced Services can add value to your business.
The Zen and Art of IT Management (VM World Keynote 2012)CA Technologies
This document discusses strategies for IT management to drive business innovation. It suggests allocating resources between maintaining current systems versus delivering new business services, with 63% of spending going towards the latter. Maintaining systems is seen as a "chore" while investing in new services enables innovation. It also discusses using tools like CA Service Assurance to improve efficiency, streamline processes, and increase capacity for innovation. Case studies show how these tools helped companies like Jack Henry & Associates and Wikimedia Foundation improve service quality and the user experience.
The document discusses GLS solutions to optimize customer networks and improve application performance, operational efficiency, and reduce costs. It identifies common business problems customers face such as poor application performance, complex infrastructure, and inefficient operations. GLS proposes optimized network designs integrating voice and data, application monitoring tools, and managed infrastructure services to address these problems. The solutions are aimed at improving application performance, reducing costs by 25-40%, improving IT operations, and providing a more effective network design.
Securing Your Infrastructure: Identity Management and Data ProtectionLumension
The document discusses securing infrastructure by introducing solutions from Microsoft, Lieberman Software, and Lumension to address challenges around privileged identity management, data protection, and device control through products like Microsoft System Center, Lieberman Enterprise Random Password Manager, and Lumension Device Control. It outlines infrastructure security challenges businesses face around increased access and security threats and how an integrated security solution from these vendors can help keep systems running securely while protecting sensitive data.
- The document proposes a new paradigm called Optumis Concerto for integrated IT systems management.
- Current IT systems management tools are siloed and fail to deliver promised value due to lack of integration between tools.
- Optumis Concerto applies techniques like abstraction and declarative frameworks to provide a coherent, integrated approach for managing complex IT infrastructure and applications.
- By abstracting management data and using a common framework, Optumis Concerto aims to improve coordination between management functions and tools.
Pariveda ECM Patterns for Large Enterprises - chicagomsteinbergtx
This document discusses strategies for planning and structuring content in SharePoint. It identifies common usage patterns like extranets, intranets, document management, and team sites. The key considerations for structuring sites include navigation, governance, security, and storage planning. Content should be classified using metadata and retention policies to support finding information. Separate site collections may be needed based on usage patterns, security, and storage needs. The goal is to choose a simple design that balances usability, maintainability, and scalability.
Governance and the Cloud
After a few years of hype, Cloud is now becoming part of the mainstream enterprise IT landscape. As with any technology or technology model, uptake demands compliance mechanisms. If you rely on something, you must have the rules and metrics required to set the standards of performance, usage and return.
In this white paper, Getronics examines cloud governance, with particular focus on how cloud-specific governance becomes an integral element of overall IT and business governance models.
SOA involves exposing business functions as reusable services. This allows for greater agility, flexibility and reuse of services across different applications. SOA breaks down monolithic applications into discrete services that can be accessed over the network in a standardized way. This trend is driving the development of loosely coupled, interoperable services that can be discovered and orchestrated to meet business needs.
HP is expanding its mission critical converged infrastructure with Project Odyssey. The project aims to modernize mission critical computing by bringing Integrity/HP-UX technology to x86 servers, extending HP's strategy. This will allow customers to do mission critical computing on their terms with a variety of operating systems and applications, providing flexibility and choice. Intel supports the project as continuing innovation in Itanium and Xeon will allow HP and Intel to deliver customer-driven mission critical solutions. Industry analysts and users have praised Project Odyssey as a smart move that promises gains for HP customers.
This document summarizes the key points from Sanjeev Bhagowalia's presentation on transforming Hawaii's state government IT and information resource management (IRM). It discusses conducting an assessment that found aging technology and processes, resource shortages, and disconnected efforts across departments. The presentation recommends focusing first on 4 areas: enterprise focus, governance, reengineering business processes, and strengthening technical infrastructure. It identifies candidates for early cross-cutting enterprise solutions and lays out a notional transformation framework and schedule. The goal is providing access to the right information securely and reliably across the state.
The presentation discussed IBM's data center consolidation and relocation services. It highlighted how IBM uses a structured methodology with standardized tools and processes to migrate applications, data, and IT equipment between data centers while minimizing risk and disruption for end users. The presentation also provided an example of how IBM helped a telecommunications firm seamlessly relocate to a new data center without any outages. Key steps included accurate discovery of infrastructure dependencies and addressing unsupported environments in advance.
How to Better Manage Your IT InfrastructureEdarat Group
1) Businesses are implementing infrastructure management strategies to keep their IT functioning effectively as business acceleration requires better management of information and resources.
2) For IT organizations, better infrastructure management results in high performance, seamless configuration, and strong security.
3) Non-IT companies can also benefit from effective infrastructure management through meeting business needs, ensuring operational efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and adopting new technologies.
Future Focus Infotech provides IT-HR consulting services, software development, and end-to-end consulting through their TechSearch, TechSource, and TechServ/TechSoft offerings. They have a presence in India, UAE, and the US. The company focuses on strategic technologies like ERP, CRM, .NET, Java, and BI for industries like BFSI, food and beverages, telecom, and manufacturing. Future Focus Infotech is ISO 9001:2008 certified and focuses on sustained growth through innovation, passion for their people, collaborative relationships, financial stability, and improving human resource development.
This document discusses the evolution of data centers and cloud computing. It notes that the workforce is increasingly mobile, the nature of work is transforming to be more collaborative both within and outside organizations, and budgets are under pressure. It discusses how colocation services and cloud computing address these trends by providing scalable, on-demand infrastructure and applications at lower costs. The basic building blocks of cloud services are software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Enterprises see potential benefits but also have concerns that need to be addressed for cloud adoption.
The document discusses challenges with acquiring IT through traditional acquisition processes and how the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) is working to address them. Specifically, it notes that IT-AAC brings proven methods, expertise, and innovations from its public-private partnership to empower the federal IT acquisition ecosystem. It also outlines challenges around laws/enforcement, culture, incentives, and processes that impede adoption of new technologies and presents IT-AAC as helping overcome them by establishing standards and decision tools based on commercial best practices.
The IT-AAC is a non-partisan think tank focused on sustainable IT acquisition reform for the federal government. It aims to provide decision-makers with alternative expertise and resources to guide the establishment of best-in-class IT acquisition processes and governance. The IT-AAC has analyzed failures in past DoD IT acquisitions, benchmarked industry best practices, and conducted pilots of alternative acquisition approaches. It is working to standardize an agile acquisition framework for rapid adoption across agencies.
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2. NASA’s IT Environment
Users NASA IT Workforce
• 18,000 Employees • 667 FTE, 2,386 WYE managed by CIOs
• 44,000 Contractors • 1,167 C.S. positions w/ IT as primary competency
Spending Networks
• $2 B annually • 3 Wide Area Networks, 6 million IP addresses
Systems/Applications • >80 connections to Internet Service Providers
• > 2,500 Applications • >200 connections to universities and partners
• NOMAD Email: 38K accounts
•530K/day messages delivered
Devices and Data Centers
• >80,000 Desktops/Laptops
Websites • >15K servers in at least 34 data centers
• >8,000 websites
• ~4K public & ~4K internal
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3. Issues / Challenges
- NASA’s current IT infrastructure allows for
significant security vulnerabilities
- This infrastructure inhibits cross-center
collaboration
- There is significant proliferation of tools and a lack of
standards to enable integration
- There is a lack visibility into NASA’s IT
investments, and there are inadequate
controls on IT spending
- There is inconsistent understanding of how IT is
managed at NASA
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4. Four Key Principles for IT at NASA
• IT at NASA serves to enable NASA’s mission
– IT must understand what is needed to enable the mission
– We buy before we build whenever possible
• We will implement information technology that enables the
integration of business (mission) processes and information
across organizational boundaries
– IT serves to bind Centers together not keep them apart
– NASA trusts NASA
• We will implement information technology to achieve
efficiencies and insure that our IT is efficiently implemented
– IT investments are business case driven
– All IT decisions are not made at the most granular level
• We will implement secure IT solutions
– Security is designed into our IT solutions
– We will understand the risks we are buying down through IT security
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5. Key Change Initiatives
Overall – Reaffirm and clarify
the role of the CIO as stated in
NPD 1000.3 and define core Finance – Increase
Organization - Realign IT services that shall be visibility into IT
NASA IT organization to delivered by the CIO budgeting and
reflect the role of the CIO spending through
and better connect the CIO Financial management controls
Organization
Management
with customers and fund base IT
services through a
Governance
combination of
Application & Tools Application Corporate and CM&O
Portfolio
Assign ownership of Management Infrastructure
application portfolios and
create a CIO-facilitated Infrastructure –
process to drive application Governance – Create Improve integration,
standardization and governance structure and security, and efficiency
efficiencies processes to engage key by consolidating
stakeholders, inform IT infrastructure and
investment decisions, and management control
apply project management
discipline to IT projects
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6. Role of the CIO in Managing IT
The CIO is responsible for all aspects of the IT
The CIO has overarching infrastructure in which those applications
The Centers, Mission responsibility for ensuring reside.
Directorates, and Mission Support alignment of those
Offices have responsibility for the applications with NASA
applications. Enterprise Architecture and
standards.
NPR 2800
NPR 7120.5 NPR 7120.7 Governance & Enterprise IT Security
Compliance
Highly Science and Project Business Infrastructure Policy Architecture
Specialized Engineering Management Management Applications
Applications Applications Applications
Examples:
Avionics Relationship Resource Innovation
software Alignment Management Management Management
Real-time
Control Infrastructure Services
Systems
Onboard
Processors Service Project
End User Communications Data Center Service Delivery Performance
Deep Space Mgmt. & Management
Management
Network Delivery (Ops) (Development)
IT Portfolios CIO Core Functions
IT that is an embedded component of a flight system, experiment,
simulator, ground support environment, or mission control center.
Does not necessarily include the IT infrastructure that supports
those embedded components.
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7. NASA IT Governance Structure
• IT Strategy and Investment Board Agency
(SIB) OMC
– Senior level stakeholders from Mission
Directorates, Mission Support, and Centers
– Decisions regarding IT Investments
(prioritization and selection), Enterprise IT Strategy &
Architecture, and NASA-wide IT
Investment
policies/processes.
Board
• IT Program Management Board
(PMB)
IT Project
– Decisions regarding application and ITIT Operations
Management
Management Board
infrastructure projects to ensure that Board
Board
investments approved by the IT strategy
and Investment board stay on track during
design and implementation.
• IT Management Board (ITMB) IT
– Decisions regarding operational Processes
performance and issues
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9. Infrastructure Management
Consolidate, integrate and secure the NASA infrastructure
• Consolidate management of NASA’s networks and security infrastructure
(WAN, Center LANs, firewalls) and provide as an integrated, end-to-end
service
– Create a common log in and user authentication experience for users across the NASA
enterprise. (HSPD-12)
• Consolidate Data Centers
• Standardize desktop, laptops, and other user devices
• Consolidate Infrastructure applications such as:
– Email (already in work)
– Portal Applications and web sites
– Collaboration software
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10. Information Technology (IT) Priorities
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y cy tio
urit ien gra
c
Sec Effi Inte
Priorities
Integrate & Secure Define network perimeter and consolidate network
Networks management
H M M
Standardize &
Standardize and secure end-user devices through
Secure End-User
consolidated management
H M M
Devices
Consolidate Security
Establish Agency network visibility of IT assets and
Ops and Incident
consolidate Agency security monitoring and mgmt
H M L
Response
Utilize a portfolio management approach to gather the
Consolidation of
applications baseline and identify opportunities for L H M
Applications
consolidation
Consolidation of Migrate systems to approprately managed and secure data H M M
Data Centers centers
Strong
Enable cross-Center collaboration and strengthen user H L H
Authentication for
authorization
NASA systems
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11. Communications Consolidation
Current State Planned Future State
Networks managed as Network managed as single
independent services enterprise service
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12. Portfolio Management Strategy
Current State Near Term Steady State
Sci. and Eng. Project Mgmt. Sci. and Eng. Project Mgmt.
Applications Applications Applications Applications
Business
Standards
OCE/MD OCE/MD OCE/MD OCE/MD
Architecture
Business Infrastructure Business Infrastructure
Applications Applications Applications Applications
Performance
Goals
MSO CIO MSO CIO
• Over 2500 applications listed in • Establish robust governance, • Recurring, lifecycle approach.
HSPD-12 repository. portfolio process and stewardship
of portfolios. • All application demand captured,
• High-level analysis indicates and managed throughout the
substantial redundancy. • Create complete Agency-wide “Execution Year”.
Investment
inventory of all application assets. Planning
• Application integration not • CIO responsible for performance
architected at the enterprise level • Develop architectural strategy for goals and EA compliance. Portfolio
and primarily point to point. applications integration. owners set business standards.
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13. Financial Strategy
Funding Source IT Portfolio Visibility
Relationship
MD Apps: Program Direct Management Insight
Applications CIO Acquisition Oversight
MSO Apps: Corporate or CMO
Implement Contract Cost Reporting
Infrastructure
Applications
Infrastructure Services
Base: Corporate or CMO End User CIO Managed Contracts
Over Base: Program Direct Implement Contract Cost Reporting
Communications
Data Center
Status Quo Highly Specialized Status Quo
Feb 26-27 PM Challenge 2008 13
14. Funding Agencywide Infrastructure Services
Data Center
End User Services
Communications
WEB Services
IT Security
Agency Applications
Baseline
Services
Levels
Vulnerability
Mgmt
Desktop Patch Mgmt
Phone Authorization
Content,
WAN Authentication IEMP, NDC
LAN eMail Situational etc Delivery,
Etc. Etc. Awareness Portal
Demand above
Baseline Service
Level
Customer Funded – Charge Back
Feb 26-27 PM Challenge 2008 14
15. Summary
• A significant transformation of NASA’s IT management and
infrastructure is required in order to better enable NASA’s
mission by integrating people, processes, and information
– The “10 healthy Centers” model requires maximum collaboration
across organizations to achieve the mission
• These changes are also required to improve security and can
achieve significant efficiencies
• NASA must recognize the fundamental relationship that exists
between IT and mission success and therefore manage IT
strategically
• This type of transformation will be difficult and require time but
must begin now
• Continued strong executive buy-in and sponsorship are critical to
success
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