KPRO is a centralized project management information
system tailored to the unique project management practices of NASA and
KSC, building on the project management capabilities provided by the commercial
off-the-shelf (COTS) application Microsoft Project 2002 Enterprise. KPRO
will provide the following functionality:
- Schedule planning
and tracking.
- Project portfolio
analysis.
- Management of KSC
resources (personnel) assigned to projects.
- Selection
of resources based on skills and/or competencies.
- Fiscal and
multiyear budget planning and tracking.
- Automated interfaces
to the NASA accounting systems.
- Status reporting.
- Earned value management
(EVM).
- Continuous risk
management, including issues tracking and reporting.
- Document
sharing.
KPRO supports the
following levels of usage representing major classes of users with
specific interface needs:
- Project: covers
day-to-day project management and engineering activities.
- Management:
covers most reporting and provides visibility for various interested parties
across multiple projects and funding sources.
- Executive:
covers multiyear and multiproject analysis, planning, and forecasting and provides
high-level reporting.
KPRO provides a
consistent environment that supports structured project management
in accordance with NASA and KSC policies and procedures
(including NPG 7120.5A, “Program and Project Management Processes
and Requirements,” and
KDP-KSC-P-2600, “Project Management Overview”). The KPRO
development team was a member of the Microsoft Joint Development
Program. This program
provided early access to MS Project 2002, dedicated Microsoft support
(including onsite visits), and the means to provide input on features,
deployment
issues, etc., of MS Project 2002.
KPRO will be deployed incrementally and is divided into four deliveries.
Delivery 1 became operational in June 2002 after Microsoft’s final
release of MS Project 2002. Additional deliveries will be rolled out
approximately every 6 months with release of Delivery 4 in September
2003.
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Figure 1. KPRO High-Level Architecture
Key accomplishments:
- Formulation/requirements
phase complete. Planning, scheduling, and requirements baselined
with the appropriate level of customer, stakeholder, and user participation
and concurrence.
- Implementation
phase ongoing since October 2001. Delivery 1 pilot testing (February
1, 2002).
- Delivery 1 deployment (June 3, 2002).
- Obtain actual expense data from NASA accounting systems.
- Assign resources from a common resource pool.
- Automate project control number.
- Populate human resource pool from the KSC Employee Data ---Warehouse.
- Standard scheduling tools.
- Initial set of custom reports.
- Evaluate COTS EVM capabilities.
Key milestones:
- Transition fiscal
planning and reporting to KPRO; Delivery 2, November 2002.
- Transition multiyear
planning and reporting; centralized risk management; incorporate
information from the competency management system (CMS); Delivery
3, February 2003.
- EVM reports;
interface with contractors reporting systems for expense and labor
data; Delivery 4, September 2003.
Contact: Y.C. Parker (Yvonne.Parker-1@ksc.nasa.gov),
YA-E2, (321) 867-8811
Participating Organizations: YA (B.M. Braden and G.N. Spears), PH (L.M. Colloredo),
TA (W.R. Sloan and J.R. Rogers), GG (S.J. Dupke, J.A. Wallace, and J.J. Zuber),
Dynacs Inc. (C. Passamonte, R. Haley, L.A. Geiger, and J.N. Heredia), Hewlett
Packard (P. Earls), and InDyne, Inc. (J. Church)
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