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JumpStart
has been in use at NASA for about four years, initially for all
projects in a $40M technology research and development program,
subsequently for all projects in a $500M+ research and development
program, and has begun to be used by some projects and is under
consideration for use by all projects in a multi-billion dollar
technology research and development program. JumpStart has been cited
as a key source of the successful passing of the $40M program’s
Non-Advocate Review (NAR) by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget,
and as a factor in the passing of the $500M+ program’s NAR. The
adoption and positive feedback from program manager’s and
non-advocate reviewers provides qualitative measure of positive
results from using JumpStart.
Quantitative results can be measured in terms
of the integrity of the business documents used for management of
these technology programs. As one measure of the integrity of
information, program and project documents utilized before and after
the implementation of JumpStart on the $500M+ program were compared,
with emphasis on discrepancies that occurred between centrally
administered registries and local project documents around milestones
and deliverables. Milestones and deliverables represent one of the
most important aspects of the agreement between program and project
managers. Differences in program and project manager’s
understandings of the agreed upon milestones can have significant
impact on the project’s and program’s success. Table 1 shows that
prior to the use of JumpStart only under 60% of all level three
project milestones had complete integrity between the project’s
documents and the program’s documents. Table 2 shows the breakdown
in information integrity for each of seven major projects, with levels
of information integrity varying from under 24% to 100%.
With the use of JumpStart PanOptica the
integrity of business documents became 100% throughout, output
documents were automatically created from input documents without any
manual cutting & pasting of information
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