Steps to the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)

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Steps to the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)

• ACES Presentation
• T. Gregory Guzik
• January 28, 2003

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What is the PDR?

• Organized by the ACES Program
• Results from your design phase
• Should show that you have thought the problem
  through
• Include written report and oral presentation
• PDR reviews will occur on Feb. 27, 2003

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Logistics for the PDR

• You will be reviewed by the ACES Program (i.e.
  Guzik, Wefel, Johnson, Ellison, Giammanco)
• Written PDR Document will be due by 900 pm on
  Tuesday February 25, 2003
• Presentations by the Team Spokesperson will be
  scheduled for Thursday, February 27, 2003
  starting at 700 pm
• Presentation will be 15 minutes long plus 5
  minutes of questions (20 minutes total).

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The PDR Decision

• Results from the review team will be available by
  COB February 28, 2003
• Written comments will be made available to the
  team.
• If approved you can immediately begin
  development.
• If disapproved you will need to revise your PDR
  and resubmit for review.

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Why would the PDR be disapproved?

• Your mission objectives are inappropriate
• We plan to fly a rock!
• You did not think the problem through
• We will measure the temperature of the jet
  stream using the rocket platform.
• You exceeded a major constraint.
• Our multi-wavelength spectrometer weighs 30 kgs,
  costs 30,000 and wont be ready until Fall,
  2005!

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The 4 Ws H can help with your PDR development

• Why? mission objectives, goals
  justification
• What? payload design cost including
  systems, electrical, mechanical, software,
  thermal interfaces
• Who? project management, work breakdown,
  task assignments
• When? milestones, timeline, staffing
• How? mission operations, data analysis

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PDR Document Template

• Microsoft Word document that you can edit and add
  to.
• Includes all of the major sections you will need
  to address.
• Includes some discussion about what should be
  included in each section.
• On your team computer under ACES gt PDR Docs

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Cover Page Shows Core Information
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When you change a document you need to track that
information
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TBDTo Be Determined
This page provides a basic list of what still
needs to be done
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Addressing this list of topics will provide all
the basic information needed to define your
payload
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Provide a list of all the figures in your document
This is a suggestion of some of the types of
figures you might want to include
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Provide a list of all the tables in your document
This is a suggestion of some of the types of
tables you might want to include
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Section 1.n is more or less done
Section 2.0 lists your references
Section 3.n describes what science you want to do
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Section 4.n describes all the details of your
payload design
Section 5.0 discusses your plans for immediately
after PDR
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In section 6.n you show how you will get your
payload flight ready
What you intend to do during flight operations is
in section 7.n
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Project management, as we discussed last week, is
detailed in section 8.n
Microsoft Project can help you with section 9.n
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Your costs and acquisition plan are in section
10.n
Section 11.0 describes any risks you have
identified that could impact your project
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Look at examples

• Proposals and other project documents on the
  bookshelves
• MS Project files illustrate how to setup a Gantt
  chart
• MS Excel file shows an example WBS structure
• Ask questions.