7 Key Principles of Program and Project Success

Vince led a seasoned team of aerospace industry experts which identified a set of seven key best practices that highly successful past programs have in common.

Project Background

Vince led a team of twenty seasoned program managers and systems engineers from the aerospace industry, academia, and government joined together to create the NASA Organization Design Team (ODT).  The key product this team delivered was NASA Technical Memorandum TM- 2008-214692 Seven Key Principles of Program and Project Success: A Best Practices Survey

Principles

Vince applied these principles to lead the following Program Management Offices (PMOs):

  • As Chief of the Program/Project Integration Office at NASA Glenn, Vince supervised a division staff of ten civil servants and oversaw team of 40 support contractors responsible for developing and implementing rigorous program and fiscal management processes, tools, and training across a portfolio of 50 space flight systems projects totaling over $150M in annual budget.

  • At Parker Hannifin Aerospace, Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division Vince established, recruited, and supervised staff of five in a new PMO.  He trained and implemented standard PM processes and tools across four operating plants and $17M annual Engineering portfolio consisting of 130 discrete projects.

  • At The Aerospace Corporation, Vince built from scratch a $2.8M portfolio of 26 IDIQ delivery orders while providing embedded program management support to the Space Flight Systems Directorate at NASA Glenn Research Center.

Publications and Citations: : (*denotes peer reviewed)

  • * Bilardo, V.J., Lindenmoyer, A.J., “Bringing Commercial Agility to the U.S. Government Space Enterprise,” ATR-2019-01514, The Aerospace Corporation, Apr-2019.

  • Hayhurst, M.R., Sakai, K., Noble, J.J., and Bilardo, V.J., “Planetary Science Instrument Heritage Study,” VTR-2019-01640, The Aerospace Corporation, Apr-2019.

  • * Hayhurst, M.R., Bitten, R.E., Mahr, E. and Bilardo, V.J., “Space Power Heritage Study Final Report,” NASA Contractor Report CR-2019-220039, Glenn Research Center, Feb-2019.

  • Duphily, R.J., Lao, N.Y., Burke, R.B., Rossi, O.K., Davis, J.P., Aguilar, J.A., Barrera, M.J., and J. Bilardo, V.J., “Residual Reliability Risk Assessment on the Utilization of Military Spacecraft Bus Architectures for Critical NASA Missions – Final Report,” VTR-2019-00382, The Aerospace Corporation, Nov-2018.

  • Federal Acquisition Corps-Program/Project Management Level IV Expert, NASA, 2012.

  • Project Management Professional (PMP), Certif. # 1453550, Project Mgt. Institute, 2011.

  • Program/Project Management Development Program, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2010.

  • Green Belt, Lean Six Sigma Program, NASA Glenn Research Center, 2010.