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Pleanary Speakers 2006
Jonathan Firth
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  Virgin Galactic : Out of this World and Back
William Gerstenmaier
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  Seeing Through the Haze: Counter-factual Thinking
Toshifumi Mukai
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  Challenges to Successful International Projects
Bryan O'Connor
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  Challenging Assumptions: Healthy Skepticism
William Parsons
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  Reach Higher: NASA's Next 50 Years
Mike Ryschkewitsch
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  Some Things You Always Needed to Know About Systems Engineering but Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
Chris Scolese
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  Building the Future of Space Exploration
Al Worden
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  Keep it Simple Stupid (KISS)

Speakers from 2006
Presentations are listed in alphabetical order by speaker.

Michael Aguilar
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  Software Development Best Practices for Human-Rated Spacecraft
     
Emma Antunes
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  Secrets of Successful Web sites
     
John Baniszewski   Contract Fire Extinguishers – A Dozen Boiler-Plate Clauses Every Project Manager Should Understand
   
John Baniszewski   The Project Manager Who Saved His Country: The Battle of Gettysburg - A Study of Effective Project Management
     
Bill Bastedo &
John Williams
  How the Lessons Learned on Other Space Programs Apply to Constellation
     
Michael Bay
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  Risk Driven CEV Electrical Systems Design
     
Norman Beck
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  Free Launch with Manageable Risk: Challenges of Integrating Dual Spacecraft
     
Vanessa Beene &
K. Lee Pagel
  Project Management Approach to Source Evaluation Boards
     
Vincent Bilardo Jr. &
George Culver &
Charles Sander
  Application of Project Simulation to Optimize Ares I–X Upper Stage Simulator Project Implementation
     
Michael Bolger   Improving Information Technology Management at NASA
     
Stephen Book   The Meaning and Use of S-Curves in Cost Estimating
     
Walter Bowman
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  Team Development Strategies: “Give Them What They Need”
     
Alan Brache
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  Turning Strategic Initiatives into Blockbuster Results
     
Anna Brockhurst &
Rebekah Lane
  Overcoming Conflict and Building High Performance Teams
     
Diane Brown &
Karen Crandall &
Maura Fujieh
  Conducting Business as a Virtual Project Team - Distributed Project Management
     
Cynthia Calhoun   Risk Management: Getting Started
     
Barbra Calvert   KSC Utilization Team
     
James Cassidy   Project Management 101 – What is Project Management?
     
Nona Minnifield Cheeks   Forming Innovative Partnerships to Enhance Future Mission-Enabling Capabilities
   
Nicholas Chrissotimos
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  STEREO: The Story
     
Terry Conroy
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  It’s Not Just About the IT: Developing Systems that People Can (and Will) Use
     
Glenn Counts   Conducting a Successful IBR
     
Russell Dare
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  Building a meaningful IT PMO: A Year in Retrospect
     
Mitchell Davis
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  Mitigating the June 2007 International Space Station(ISS) Russian Segment Computer Anomaly in your Design
     
David Dean &
Jon Mihalic
  Integrated Project Management – Tear Down Those Walls
     
Anthony DeMarco   Five Questions a Project Manager Should Ask About Every Estimate
     

Cornelius Dennehy

  Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) Best Practices for Human-Rated Spacecraft
     
Lisa DiTulio   Expected Behaviors: Road Rules for Project Team Member – Not Road Rage
     
Diane Dromgold
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  Building Teams to Achieve - Proven across Cultures, Disciplines, Geography
     
Eric Druker   Taking a Second Look: The Potential Pitfalls of Popular Risk Methodologies
     
Debbie Dusterwald   The Changing World of Configuration Management
     
John Emond
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  Forging Partnerships: Team Building as Crucial Element
     
Mary Faller   Help us Help you - Spacecraft Lessons Learned from a Launch Vehicle Technical Integration Perspective
     
Frank Gati
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  Being Part of Integrated Project Management Work from Another Center
     
Michael Gazarik Bridging the Research and Spaceflight Operations Gap: The EVA IR Camera Experience
   
Matthew Gonzales   Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) Implementation Strategy
     
David R. Graham   Electronic Facilitation of Integrated Cost Management for Projects
     
Richard Grammier
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Getting to a Successful PDR Under NPR 7120.5D
   
James Hale
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  Dragons in our Dreams and Daring Deeds
     
Robert Hanna Private Risks, Trust and Communication
   
Christian Hardcastle
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  The Constellation Program Team: Reaching Higher, and Further
     
John Harnagel   Supplier Program Management
     
Michael Hazen   Big-Picture Thinking
     
Gena Henderson
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  The Agency’s Initiative on Lessons Learned
     
Edward Hoffman &
Jon Boyle<
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OMB Project Management Certification Requirements: Response and Implementation
   
Edward Hoffman &
Matt Kohut
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  How We Learn
     
Steven Hoffman   Risk Reduction through Emergency Preparedness - A Hurricane Tested Solution
     
Timothy Honeycutt   Multi-Element Integrated Testing at Kennedy Space Center
     
Jennifer Hough &
Vickie Robinson &
Rebecca Wainwright
  Recovery and Success of Troubled Projects
     
Michael Hulet
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  Learning from Past Experiences
     
David Hulett   How the Risk Register Drives the Schedule Risk Analysis
     
Gary Humphreys   Establishing a Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) in a Cost Effective Manner
     
Randy Humphries
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  5 Fundamental Things You Need to Know to Get Back to the Moon
     
Vanessa Johnson &
Jeffrey Kottmyer
  Implementing an In-house Solution for Earned Value Management
     
Paul Krasa &
James Lee
  HyTEx: A Multi-Center & Multi-Agency Success Story
     
Lovely Krishen   A Risk-Based Approach to Shuttle Transition Workforce Communications
     
Lin Kroeger   Kick Starting a Collaborative, Contingence-seeking Mindset
     
Richard Laws   Cost Savings in Control Board Processing through Business Process Management – A Success Story
     
Matthew Leonard The Power of a “Can Do” Team: Conducting the Constellation SRR
   
James Lewis   GFE Project Management: Meeting the Challenge!
     
Linda Loerch &
Carol Mullenax &
Nick Sktyland
  Adapting Project Management Practices to Research-Based Projects
     
Jan Martinson   Lean+ “Tying it All Together”
     
Douglas McLennan   Managing under Challenging Circumstances
     
Daisy Mueller   The BOSS - Business Operating Success Strategies
     
Gerald Mulenburg
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  What Does Complexity Have To Do With It?
     
Cynthia Null
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  Best Practices for Reliable and Robust Human Systems Integration
   
David Oberhettinger &
David Tate
  Multimedia Search Tool for Accessing Engineering Best Practice Information
     
William O'Keefe   Team Training for High Performance Teams
     
Mary Osterhout &
Sarah Woodbury
  Integrating Human Factors into Space Vehicle Processing for Risk Management
     
William Paradis   Leveraging Scheduling Productivity with Practical Scheduling Techniques
     
Denise Pham   Managing Risk by Influential Government Insight and Global Collaboration
     
Kenneth Reightler
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  Lockheed Martin’s Approach to Mission Success
     
Pedro Ribeiro
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  Predictable Project Surprises: Bridging Risk Perception Gaps
     
Steve Rider
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  Preparing for Facilities Readiness
     
John Rigoli   In Search of a Good Project Schedule
     
Ivan Rosenburg   Solving Difficult Problems without Descoping
     
Brian Rutkowski &
Charles Hunt
  Cost Estimating Requirements to Support New Congressional Reporting Requirements
     
Phil Sabelhaus
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  The Realities of Successful Project Management
     
Marco Sampietro
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  Mood and Emotions: Impact on Team Performance
     
Doug Sander   The SSP Transition & Retirement - Managing the last phase of the Program Lifecycle
     
Dawn Schaible
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  Design, Development, Test, and Evaluation (DDT&E) Considerations for Safe and Reliable Human Rated Spacecraft Systems
     
Garrett Skrobot
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  PPOD: Managing Small Secondary Payloads
     
Sandra Smalley
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  NASA’s Business Systems – Are they working for you?
     
Amy Stapleton   Using Agile Scrum to Achieve Superior Team Performance
     
Thomas Sutliff &
June Zakrajsek
  Project Management ABCs – A is for Acquisition
     
Ronald Walsh   Requirements Management
     
Bobby Watkins
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  Dealing with Difficult Situations
     
Julie Webster
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  Multiple Orbits, Multiple Targets, Living with Risk Every Day
     
Robert Webster   Is Your Estimate Real?
     
Pamela West   Processes – What are they good for? Absolutely Something!
     
Louis Wheatcraft
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  Everything in its Place – Levels, Allocation, and Traceability
     
Joanne Woytek   SEWP: A Culture for Program Success
     
Mary Beth Zimmerman
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  Getting a Handle on Cost and Schedule Performance


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