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This Moon project symbolized U.S strength and changed the management to a centralizing authority for all aspects in D.C.
What is the Apollo mission?
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JPL projects jumped from four to 40 within the space of five years due to this reform. Reduce aversion to risk.
What is FBC?
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His reform to management was to move NASA away from long billion-dollar missions to smaller less expensive and more innovative projects produced on a faster timetable. Implemented “FBC.”
Who is Daniel Goldin?
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NASA’s web page to be customized so that staffers can search efficiently for information they need on an ongoing basis.
What is a Web-based Portal?
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Getting the right information to the right people at the right time, and helping people create knowledge and share and act upon information in ways that will measurably improve the performance
What is knowledge management?
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This mission was a great success even though there were very little experienced people and they walked away thinking they knew how to operate successful projects but could not repeat the success. Also implemented a radio beacon
What is Mars Pathfinder?
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Did not put on beacon because investment criteria were to maximize mission success, beacon just reported facts and wouldn’t help mission success. Project managers were thinking of about project success, not program success.
What is Mars Lander?
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Implementing succession planning and creating a formal process for transferring knowledge from people who are leaving high-level management positions.
What is a KM initiative?
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Support best practice communities and a culture sharing of knowledge through grass-roots efforts across the agency.
What is Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL)?
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GAO reported significant inadequacies in the effectiveness of the system because managers were reluctant to share negative lessons for fear that they might not be viewed as good managers. Also covers so many topics that it is difficult to research for an applicable lesson.
What is The Lessons Learned Information System (LLIS)?
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Two unmanned spacecraft sent past Jupiter, Saturn, and the outer planets. Its pictures of the solar system revolutionized astronomers’ understanding of the outer planets.
What is Project Voyager?
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Billion-dollar mission to Mars, landed two spacecraft on the red planet as well as an orbiting device that returned useful information about Mars’s atmosphere.
What is Project Viking?
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Tested the compatibility of U.S. and USSR docking systems and symbolized lessening tensions between the two cold war adversaries
What is Apollo-Soyez Test Project?
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An experimental, three person, Earth-orbiting space station that used a reconfigured stage of the Saturn V rocket stage as its basic component.
What is Skylab?
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Gathered oral histories from experienced individuals about the impact of significant events on JPL culture and missions (such as the loss of the 1999 Mars missions), timing issues that were critical to their job success, and key artifacts and publications they produced or referenced frequently.
What are Personal knowledge organizers?