1. Roadmap Study: Update on Implementation of Results
(“Now What…?”)
Ralph L. McNutt, Jr.
PDS Chief Scientist
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Roadmap Activities
Roadmap Study Team (RST) finished 23 June 2017
“Welcome to the Team” sent 29 July 2016
Kick off telecon 22 August 2016
Face-to-Face meetings held October 2016 and 8-10 February 2017 in Towson, Maryland
Planetary Data System Roadmap Study for 2017 – 2026 is now complete and available on the PDS roadmap page:
Talks summarizing the Roadmap Study will be presented at the upcoming American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting and were presented at the 49th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting
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3. Establishment of the Roadmap Activity
NASA chartered this current PDS Roadmap Study Team to “develop a practical, community-developed pathway to implement the new long-term vision for the PDS, which continues to accomplish NASA’s broad objective for the PDS; namely, preserving and making available all data products from planetary exploration research and missions.”
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4. Roadmap Study and Report
Available on the PDS roadmap page:
19 “Findings”
Corresponding “remediations”
Appendices documenting PDS background and information not otherwise easily located
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So What?
“Roadmaps” are useful in two ways
Pull together an overall approach – typically looking for longer-term (~three years to a decade, typically) implementation needs
Provide both a consensus of and education to an appropriate sampling of stakeholders in the outcome of an activity
These were called for in the aforementioned “ Charter”
The Roadmap report – and the associated interactions, discussions, and activities of the Roadmap Study Team accomplished these objectives
“Roadmaps” are not Program or Project Plans
They do not provide detailed schedules, which must be both resource loaded and funded and approved by higher levels of management
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The Way Forward
Good roadmaps do provide “a way forward” – along with options to match ever-changing resource realities
As Noted in the Project Manager’s report there is movement in
Assembling a Project Plan
Estimating required resources
Accelerating the conversion of heritage files to PDS4
Accelerating PDS4 tool development
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The Job Never Ends
To accomplish all of these things in a timely fashion pro-active management is key
As the Roadmap suggested, even that requires resources
But we are further ahead now than we were before
Continued efficient cooperation between the nodes and the Project Office is necessary, but not sufficient,…
… although it is a start
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