Developing Project Excellence in a Complex World

Project Management Challenge
All 18 payloads had reserves
• Cost ($ per fiscal year)
• Mass (kg)
• Power (watts)
• Data rate to the spacecraft bus (kilobytes/second)
Overruns would lead to de‐scoping (i.e., instruments cut)
Problem:
How would you manage the reserves to increase the
likelihood that all instruments would fly on the spacecraft?
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