One hundred rules for NASA project managers (1995) [pdf]

Re:One hundred rules for NASA project managers (1995) [pdf] by mcguire on Thursday September 04, 2014 @04:34PM (#8270477)

NASA centers (and "competency centers") are almost completely unrelated to each other. Policies and procedures at one center have nothing to do with any of the others, and HQ may say, "thou shalt do this", but there's no guarantee a given center will pay more than lip service to it. And not even that if their politics-fu is strong enough.

Oh, and JPL is completely unrelated to the rest of NASA. To the extent that I'm debating removing "the rest of" from that previous sentence.

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Re:One hundred rules for NASA project managers (1995) [pdf] by rootbear on Thursday September 04, 2014 @06:32PM (#8271041)

I've spent much of my professional career at NASA Goddard and I'd have to agree with this for the most part. My former group worked well with a group at Ames, but my current group pissed off JPL by taking some work they wanted. So it goes...

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Re:One hundred rules for NASA project managers (1995) [pdf] by mcguire on Friday September 05, 2014 @12:13PM (#8274683)

I've got six years at the "NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center", NEACC (not to be confused with the North-East Alabama Community College, NEACC), which is at Marshall but really, sort of, part of HQ. We frequently get to do really bad things because the people at Johnson, for example, want to do things completely differently from the people at Kennedy.

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