Program Manager, Enterprise Product on Demand Service (ePODS)
About: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) began transforming its mapping, charting, and data management processes from an often outdated, labor- and time-intensive process this program aided in reducing cartographic production time from hundreds of hours to as few as one. The clear success of the project served as an impetus for NGA to modernize nautical and topographic mapping and charting.
I was the Project Manager for this program. I had several customers, who had customers for which these mapping products were being produced. Each release we had competing requirements that had to be balanced. Mitigating "Scope creep" was important as we only had one pot of money, and it had to be used to develop and implement the new mapping product for that release. Each new product introduced a new map and that serviced a different customer. Topographic was for the Army and Marines, Nautical was for the Navy, Aeronautical was for the Air Force or their partners.
I feel as though I did a good job managing scope creep, as each task was tied back to our requirements document/matrix. If it wasn't in there, then it was considered a new requirement and had to go through our Change Control Board (CCB), as well as be impacted against the current requirements and schedule.
At the end of the day, it's all about balance. Balancing requirements against resources, and ensuring your execution matches your plan.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
ISD Estimating Resources
Hello team, below are a few links to ISD estimating resources that I have found extremely useful.
This is one of the more popular references, I used this to
form estimates for ID work projects I was trying to win contracts on. If you can name, he covers it.
Another good resource which outlines all the different
areas/tasks you may need to consider when building/compiling an estimate.
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