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COST REDUCTION POTENTIAL IN SPACE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
rk wrote:
A friend sent me this reference. These groups often talk about reducing costs. Here's some insight from 20 years ago. Warning - not your typical journal article as Jimmy Durante is quoted in it. Good stuff and an enjoyable read. -- rk COST REDUCTION POTENTIAL IN SPACE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ADELBERT O. TISCHLER, Bethesda, MD Acta Astranautica Vol. II, No. 12, pp. 741-744, 1984 Abstract -------- The barrier to low cost space programs has been identified, and we are it. Principal among the causes for escalation of space program costs is the 'system' which has evolved to control programs. The 'system' includes not only the procedures and documents that constitute the flow of paper, the reviews and approvals necessary to initiate actions, and the entire methodology of the decision-making and approval processes but, necessarily, the people, including political as well as industrial counterparts, who populate these environments. This complex 'system' has proliferated so that it now promotes time-taking routines, obstructs prompt action, inhibits decisions, extends schedules and escalates costs. Designed to aid and abet management by supplying information necessary to maintain cognizance of program status the 'system' has taken over the role of management. Problems and their solutions must now be addressed to the 'system' as aided and abetted by management. Most of the evident causes of program cost problems have long since been recognized. Attacking them will produce second-order effects until management is willing to face up to the internal cost driver. So true!! It's only gotten worst in the last 20 years. And not only costs, but safety too. Craig Fink |
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