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Science Office for Mission Assessments - SOMA

AO Cost and Schedule Lessons Learned Workshop
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Grand Hyatt DFW Airport
 
Agenda
 
Wednesday, April 16
5:00 - 8:00 pm
Preliminary Registration @ Europe Conference Room
 
Thursday, April 17 @ South America Ball
8:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:15 am
Workshop begins (while you eat)
8:15 am
AO Simplification Overview
Goals of AO Simplification, workshop goals, Progress to date
Paul Hertz , NASA [1]
8:30 am
Cost/Schedule Workshop Overview
Statement of task, Ground rules and game play, Suggestions on cost/schedule
P. Hertz & B. Perry, NASA [1]
9:00 am
The goal of TMC cost & schedule evaluation of a pre-phase A project
Evaluator’s view: M. Stancati (SAIC) [2]
Proposer’s view: F. Doumani (JPL) [3]
Evaluator’s view: M. Jacobs (SAIC), “No Cost AO” [4]
(Walk on) Proposer’s view: B. Purcell (Ball)
 
10:30 am
Break
Discussion of the cost & schedule components of a Step 1 proposal For each topic: required content, level of detail, best format
10:45 am
Proposed budget including cost tables, funding profile, and justification
Evaluator’s view: R. Kellogg (Aerospace) [5]
Proposer’s view: G. Zarlengo (Ball) [6]
Evaluator’s view: D. Curtis (UC Berkeley/SSL) [7]
 
12:00 noon
Lunch ($16.00 paid at registration)
1:00 pm
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Master Equipment List (MEL) including required content, standardization, level of detail, dictionary
Proposer’s view: J. McCarthy (Orbital) [8]
 
2:00 pm
Schedule including I&T flow, critical path, milestones
Evaluator’s view: V. Barghe-Sharghi (Aerospace) [9]
Proposer’s view: N. Smith (LMCO) [10]
Proposer’s view: M. Lankton (LASP) [11]
 
3:15 pm
Workshop Summary
Paul Hertz, NASA
3:30 pm
Formal adjournment but informal discussions continue until 5:00 pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
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