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| mholt at (no spam) ohiohills.com... |
 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:39 am |
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I'm reading "Von Braun" (Neufeld), and there are notes here and there
about how von Braun thought about managing the large-scale programs.
Has there been a summary of how he did it, how it was done after him,
and what does and does not work?
There seem to be a few NASA papers on the topic, but I find them
impenetrable. I suspect they are written for those who are so far
into the NASA culture that explaining some things isn't deemed
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| Joseph Nebus... |
| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:40 am |
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"mholt at (no spam) ohiohills.com" <mholt at (no spam) ohiohills.com> writes:
[quote]I'm reading "Von Braun" (Neufeld), and there are notes here and there
about how von Braun thought about managing the large-scale programs.
Has there been a summary of how he did it, how it was done after him,
and what does and does not work?
There seem to be a few NASA papers on the topic, but I find them
impenetrable. I suspect they are written for those who are so far
into the NASA culture that explaining some things isn't deemed
necessary.
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One which I found enlightening and expect to reread is Diane
Vaughan's _The Challenger Launch Decision_, which is not so much about
how the overall system of NASA management (and obviously talks nothing
about von Braun) was designed or meant to work but does get into rather
good detail about how it worked in practice.
NASA's History Series Publication has a couple of books which I
haven't got around to reading, although Arnold Levine's _Managing NASA
In The Apollo Era_ would seem to be quite on the point. This series
does tend to be dry reading, but it's hard to make a story of management
organization thrilling.
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4102/sp4102.htm
It may be there's just not much that talks about big project
management that's aimed at the non-technical audience.
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Joseph Nebus
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