April 17th, 2009

PMT Team Receives NASA Agency Honor Award

HIGHLIGHT:

The ARC PMT Team and the JSC Dashboard Team received the Agency Honor Award for their joint group achievement in providing the Agency with an Integrated Phasing Plan and Resource Monitoring System. The award ceremony took place on April 16th at NASA Headquarters.

BACKGROUND:

The team was awarded for a financial management tool which has given the Agency a product they have never had: the ability to develop an integrated Agency phasing plan and the ability to visually display the data at an overarching Agency level. The PMT Team collected more then 1,900 phasing plans from all the Center's current systems and worked closely with the Mission Directorates to give them an opportunity to revise and approve the plans. The PMT Team also produced monthly plan vs. actual reports and shipped the data to the JSC Dashboard Team. The JSC Team provided a web-based dashboard with the ability to drill down to the Center and project levels. The complete system was deployed in an extremely short timeframe of less then five months.

COLLABORATORS:

JSC: John Beall, Cathy Claunch, Sid Schmidt, Adele Leighton, Sarah Finch, Douglas Rushing, Tom Canning, Junnu Sam, Tom Besser, Allison Horton, Debbie McCarthy, Carol Harvey ARC: Darlene Gross (CS), Herb Finger (CS), Peter Putz (TI), Hemil Patel (TI), Chen-Jung (Jennifer) Hsu (TI), Jairon Moh-Hashim (TI), Jon Robbins (ID)

FUNDING SOURCE:

The Integrated Phasing Plan and Resource Monitoring System was funded by the NASA Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO).

POCs:

Peter Putz, Ph.D (USRA/RIACS), PMT Project Lead, pputz@riacs.edu