Steps to the Preliminary Steps to the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)Design Review (PDR)

ACES Presentation

T. Gregory Guzik

January 28, 2003

What is the PDR?What is the PDR?

Organized by the ACES ProgramResults from your design phase Should show that you have “thought the

problem through”Include written report and oral presentationPDR reviews will occur on Feb. 27, 2003

Logistics for the PDRLogistics 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 9:00 pm on Tuesday February 25, 2003

Presentations by the Team Spokesperson will be scheduled for Thursday, February 27, 2003 starting at 7:00 pm

Presentation will be 15 minutes long plus 5 minutes of questions (20 minutes total).

The PDR DecisionThe 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.

Why would the PDR be Why would the PDR be disapproved?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 won’t be ready until Fall, 2005!”

The 4 Ws + H can help with The 4 Ws + H can help with your PDR developmentyour 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

PDR Document TemplatePDR 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 > PDR Docs

Cover Page Cover Page Shows Core Shows Core InformationInformation

When you When you change a change a

document you document you need to track need to track

that informationthat information

TBDTBDTo Be DeterminedTo Be Determined

This page This page provides a basic provides a basic list of what still list of what still

needs to be doneneeds to be done

Addressing this Addressing this list of topics will list of topics will provide all the provide all the

basic information basic information needed to define needed to define

your payloadyour payload

Provide a list of Provide a list of all the figures in all the figures in your documentyour document

This is a This is a suggestion of suggestion of some of the some of the

types of figures types of figures you might want you might want

to includeto include

Provide a list of Provide a list of all the tables in all the tables in your documentyour document

This is a This is a suggestion of suggestion of some of the some of the

types of tables types of tables you might want you might want

to includeto include

Section 1.n is Section 1.n is more or less donemore or less done

Section 2.0 lists Section 2.0 lists your referencesyour references

Section 3.n Section 3.n describes what describes what

science you want science you want to doto do

Section 4.n Section 4.n describes all the describes all the details of your details of your payload designpayload design

Section 5.0 Section 5.0 discusses your discusses your

plans for plans for immediately after immediately after

PDRPDR

In section 6.n In section 6.n you show how you show how

you will get your you will get your payload flight payload flight

readyready

What you intend What you intend to do during flight to do during flight operations is in operations is in

section 7.nsection 7.n

Project Project management, as management, as

we discussed we discussed last week, is last week, is detailed in detailed in section 8.nsection 8.n

Microsoft Project Microsoft Project can help you with can help you with

section 9.nsection 9.n

Your costs and Your costs and acquisition plan acquisition plan are in section are in section

10.n10.n

Section 11.0 Section 11.0 describes any describes any risks you have risks you have identified that identified that

could impact your could impact your projectproject

Look at examplesLook 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.