WELCOME

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WELCOME INTRODUCTION

• MN3309 Session 0
• Prof. Mark Nissen

http//web.nps.navy.mil/menissen/mn3309/lectures/
m09l0.ppt
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Agenda

• Welcome Introductions
• S/W Challenges and Opportunities
• Project Management Exercise
• Course Description Requirements

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Welcome Introductions

• A bit about me
• NPS IS Acquisition faculty
• AI to innovate acquisition processes
• Reengineering acquisition, King PM
• Intelligent acquisition agents, KM
• Ph.D. IS, M.S. SM, B.S. BA, AE, other
• Dozen years management in aerospace
• Software and hardware programs
• CP, PMO engineering assignments
• Married 2, tennis, steers goats
• About you (2-sided forms)

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Army Perspective

• Revolution in military affairs (Reimer)
• IT revolutionizing Army (Guenther)
• Force XXI leveraging IT
• Software is key enabler of Force XXI
• S/W as key resource (fuel, ammo)
• S/W less familiar than other resources
• S/W complex, more failure-prone

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Future of Warfare

• WW 3.1 - Select enemy. Delete.
• Info-supported -based warfare
• Battlefield implications
• Temporal compression, spatial expansion
• Stealth mobility over size armor
• Information space dimensions
• Career organizational implications
• Specialist warriors (missiles, space, IT)
• De-layer mil organizations, CC, DM

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Software Prevalence

• DoD S/W _at_ 40B/yr
• Unsure of total
• Space, air, sea, land, office systems
• W/S application millions of SLOC
• PDSS _at_ 70 of W/S S/W LCC
• Will affect almost every PM PMO
• Major LCC element x highest risk area

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S/W Problems Failures

• S/W is DoD Achilles Heel
• Schedules perfect record (Randolph)
• Most projects fail on some dimension
• Cost overruns in Ms
• Schedule delays in years
• Performance unsat, insupportable
• Intangible, abstract, invisible, creative
• Difficult to measure correctness
• Testing 5000 year bugs (IBM)

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S/W Problems Failures

• Examples (GAO)
• Comanche helicopter avionics
• B-2 bomber avionics
• SSN-688 AN/BSY-1 "seavionics"
• ASAS system
• ACSC system
• C-17 cargo
• F-22 fighter avionics
• NSSN AN/BSY-2 "seavionics"
• Many others more to come!

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GAO Software Problems

• GAO Congress, spending
• Reviewed 20 major programs
• Significant S/W development problems
• Millions of SLOC involved
• Cost, schedule, performance shortfalls
• Millions of dollars years of delays for
  non-performing systems
• Major concerns
• Inadequate testing, excessive concurrency
• Poor program management

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Project Management Exercise

• Form 2 teams - planner, doer, recorder
• Task walk with book on head/shoulder
• Across room back, no hands
• Speed important
• Start over if dropped
• Estimate and measure
• Number of steps, hands drops
• Time to complete task
• Record explain variances

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Course Overview

• Prepare you for S/W PM
• Process innovation emphasis
• DAWIA SAM content
• Critique manage in DoD environment
• Lectures, cases, readings, etc.
• TOPGUN approach
• Safe, principled, hyper-realistic environment
• Enjoyable, rewarding project

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Course Expectations

• Address course as mission essential
• Be prepared responsible
• Contribute assist as well as learn
• Appreciate the absence of absolutes
• Think beyond boundaries of mil units
• Unwavering unquestionable ethics
• Tips
• Advance reading, active thought, op comparison,
  class participation, project innovation
  teamwork, student skills

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Course Materials

• Outline
• Schedule
• Reading Guidelines
• Case Guidelines
• Synopsis Guidelines
• Project Guidelines
• Final exam