The Invisible Matters - How Program Management and Systems Engineering Teamed to Build the World's Largest IceCube
February 16, 2016 1:00 PM EST (UTC-5)
Platform: Adobe Connect
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Duration: 60 min
Support: Earning PDUs | Tips For Attendees
What can Project and Program Managers learn from an IceCube? In this case, a lot! The South Pole is now home to IceCube, the world’s largest and arguably most unusual telescope. IceCube is a true “Discovery Class” research instrument capable of totally redefining our sense of the physical universe, but presented the design team with many unique challenges. Join us and we’ll share a true insider’s view of how the power of Program Management and Systems Engineering, working together in a process uniquely tailored for IceCube, enabled all of this to happen. This is a rare opportunity to observe the logic, tailoring strategy, and artifacts from one of the most remarkable development programs ever to take place.
The challenge was fascinating. How do you design a system today to examine things in the future you don’t even know exist yet? How can you inexpensively achieve spacecraft level reliability using mostly off the shelf parts and inexperienced assembly labor? How do you validate and verify system design when the final deployment environment is so unique? How do you accomplish an engineering and program management feat of this magnitude using an international collection of academic resources, all brilliant physicists, but with little or no large project experience?
The result was remarkable. There are no mirrors or lenses to point, instead this telescope “sees” in all directions at once. It is taller than the largest building, but almost completely hidden beneath the surface. The neutrino particles it “sees” are invisible, and virtually undetectable except in the extraordinarily rare event of a collision with the nucleus of an atom. IceCube occupies roughly a cubic kilometer of ice, and the thousands of devices within that ice must perform at spacecraft reliability levels. Construction and deployment took place in one of the most difficult working environments imaginable.
Best of all? On schedule, on budget, and meeting / exceeding performance expectations!
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PMI-ACP
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PfMP
PMI-PBA
DASM
DASSM
DAC
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