Project Management Knowledge Sharing

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Project Management Knowledge Sharing

• March 2002

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Background

• GRCs participation in the NASA Academy of
  Program and Project Leadership (APPL) courses and
  related activities has significant room for
  improvement
• APPL produces a bi-monthly magazine Academy
  Sharing Knowledge (ASK), The NASA source for
  project management, presently issuing its
  seventh volume, contains articles and best
  practices from across NASA - but none from GRC
• Project Managers at other NASA Centers, namely
  MSFC ARC, are represented to a very large
  degree

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Introduction

• 0170 together with ODTO and close cooperation and
  collaboration from Code FT are proposing to
  develop a community of emerging program and
  project leaders
• The basis is to assemble a group/network of the
  more emerging program and project managers to
  interact on a regular basis and begin a process
  of knowledge sharing
• The hope is that this initiative will be viewed
  as value-added and a vehicle for improvement of
  skills and an opportunity for GRC recognition as
  an innovator of program and project leadership
  development
• This activity will feature a kickoff event on May
  2, 2002 called Transfer Wisdom into Action

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Knowledge Sharing a.k.a. Transfer Wisdom Into
Action
Basis for GRC Initiative

• The following principles have been developed by
  Dr. Alex Laufer, the leader/creator of the NASA
  Knowledge Sharing Initiative
• Generating and sharing new knowledge is crucial
  for the success of the organization
• One must look for new knowledge within the
  organization and close to the action
• Generating sharing and discussing stories is an
  excellent way of converting tacit knowledge to
  explicit knowledge and an effective method for
  quickly assimilating new knowledge

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Knowledge Sharing Objectives

• Primary Objectives
• Participants will be exposed to new ideas and
  practices that they can apply and/or implement
  right away.
• Participants will become aware of the expanded
  meaning of knowledge (explicit and tacit), and
  intelligence (mental, emotional, and spiritual).
• Participants will be convinced that to be
  effective project leaders they must become
  researchers-in-action (that is, they must
  continuously reflect on and analyze their
  experience).
• Participants will understand the unique power of
  stories in generating, sharing, and acquiring
  project knowledge from ASK magazine.
• Secondary Objectives
• Participants will have an opportunity to network
  with peers.
• Participants will have an opportunity to share
  their unique knowledge with the group and with
  the rest of NASA.
• APPL will collect feedback regarding the
  effectiveness of its knowledge-sharing
  initiative. 
• APPL will collect information regarding the
  establishment of a network of customers and
  suppliers of knowledge.

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Transfer Wisdom Into Action

• Target Audience
• Emerging project leaders from any discipline
• Due to the highly interactive nature of this
  workshop attendance at the May 2 (full day)
  session will be limited
• This is not a one-time event
• Follow-on sessions (GRC) will be every 6-8 weeks
  for 1-2 hours

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Transfer Wisdom Into Action

• Action
• Please nominate people who should be and want to
  be part of this initiative
• Please send nominations to Kathy Clark
  (Kathy.M.Clark_at_grc.nasa.gov) by March 22, 2002