Collins Class Submarine Project: Successful or not

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Collins Class Submarine Project Successful or
not ??

• Cost 1000 over original estimate, 600 over
  initial approved budget
• Schedule 10 years late
• Performance on initial delivery None, or at
  least, much less than required

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The Apollo Project
20 July 1969 Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon.
May 25, 1961 SS(ID) to FOC Not more than 8
years, 7 months
July 24, 1969. The team safely returns
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Apollo Project Some Gee Whiz Numbers

• Prime contract let 4 months after Presidents
  announcement
• Project cost US 150 billion (2005 dollars) (3)
• 750 contractor
• Cdn govt contract actions CY 2004 47,690 (1)
• NASA (1965) 300,000 (2)
• Start to finish 98 months

1. Contracts Canada 2. Roger E. Bilstein, Stages
to Saturn A Technological History of the
Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Washington, DC
NASA SP-4206, 1980), passim, and Appendix E. 3.
NASA and BLS
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Apollo Project Successful or not ??

• Cost CY US150 billion
• Schedule Completed 5 months early
• Performance Met most difficult technical
  requirements in history to that point

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DND News Release. Valcartier. Oct 12, 2004 New
vehicle replaces the Iltis fleet
LUVW Project began 10 Dec 1987 Actual schedule
17 years to deliver Chevy Eldorados 19 years
to deliver Mercedes G-wagens
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Observations on DND Project Performance
Measurement and Reporting
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Typical Project Performance Reporting
Level of performance
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Typical Project Performance Reporting
Level of performance
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Very often day-to-day PM management objectives
bear little or no immediate relevance to
Strategic (DND/Corporate) Objectives
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At the project staff level the time required to
perform an activity will always equal the time
available
NSA/MHP spent 26 years, from 1978 to 2004,
refining project documents
DND / PWGSC purchased challenger jets for PM in
72 hours (March 2002), or 3/10,000 the time for
MHP

• JSS will spend at least 9 years developing pre
  contract award documents (1999-2008)

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At the project staff level the time required to
perform an activity will always equal the time
available
NSA/MHP spent 26 years, from 1978 to 2004,
refining project documents
Note that this is more than a year longer than it
took Apollo to land mankind on the moon
DND / PWGSC purchased challenger jets for PM in
72 hours (March 2002), or 3/10,000 the time for
MHP

• JSS will spend at least 9 years developing pre
  contract award documents (1999-2008)

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The bigger the project the less likely anyone
will be held responsible for overall project
performance

• Very few project sponsors / managers / staff will
  be with the project from start to finish
• The lengthy schedule will always generate changes
  to project scope / deliverables / technology /
  expectations, e.g. new G-Wagens require more
  armour protection than anyone foresaw when
  project began in 1988.

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Project performance is a function of who is
measuring it

• CDS / sponsor Capability delivery
• ADM(Mat) Materiel acquisition
  process effectiveness
• PWGSC Contracting
  effectiveness
• Industry Canada Industrial, regional benefits
• Regional agencies Fair share of the pie
• T B Secretariat Accountability framework
• Cabinet and the Prime Minister Political impact
• Canadian industry Contracts, jobs, technology,
  competitive advantage, profits
• Project manager Those activities he/she is
  responsible for

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Measuring Project Performance Hercules
Replacement
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Measuring Project Performance

• Within the project, performance should be
  monitored at the lowest possible level, then
  rolled up to higher levels
• Identify sources and causes of variance
• Recognize that there are many measures of project
  performance, and that they are often related to
  competing organizational objectives

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Back to the Collins and Apollo

• Collins was a very successful project (at the
  strategic level)
• RAN will have the largest, and one of the most
  effective, conventional subs in the world
• Australia has a brand new modern submarine
  building and support industry
• Australia expects significant submarine exports

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Apollo

• Still considered one of the most successful
  projects in history
• The space shuttle and International Space
  Station nearly the whole of the U.S. manned
  space program for the past three decades were
  mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said. (27
  Sep 2005)

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Mount Everest Project Classic Organization
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Mount Everest Project Classic Organization
Going rate Cdn 65,000 transportation
personal equipment
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Mount Everest Project Goran Kropp
Organization
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Top Gun 2005 award for Canadas most successful
Green procurement, Performance based,
IRB-tempered, Low electromagnetic signature, Low
logistics footprint, Lowest cost compliant, Low
political risk, ultra strategic project went to
the General Officer Transportation System Project
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