Monthly Highlights features a monthly IEMP update, including our progress, schedule information, upcoming activities and events in progress.

• eTravel: on target with pilot
• IAM PP&E: Up Close & Personal

eTravel: on target with pilot

Since a summer stand up, the Integrated Enterprise Management Program’s eTravel Project has remained on target towards executing a pilot launch within Release 8.2 currently scheduled for April 2008. The project team conducted a Pilot Center Readiness Review bringing Kennedy Space Center’s stakeholders up to date on the efforts surrounding the pilot and ensuring KSC’s readiness to begin preparations. Plans for additional rollouts to all remaining centers are scheduled for go-live during Release 9.1 October 2008.

Since resuming full project operations last month, eTravel has:

• Conducted the Pilot Center Readiness Review for KSC
• Conducted the Quarterly Risk Review with the Program Office
• Completed the Business Impact Analysis
• Updated the Project Plan and Project Scope documents
• Provided briefing and data for the Independent Cost and Schedule Assessment Team
• Conducted project status briefings to the eTravel Steering Committee
• Presented assessments and project data to the IEM PMC and received authorization to baseline the project schedule.

The project will complete a Delta Critical Design Review on October 3rd. After receiving approval of the project design changes, the eTravel team will begin their 3rd development Sprint .This sprint will continue the development of the Travel Document Integration, develop Business Warehouse reports, design portal views, initiate Business Readiness activities, and conduct end-to-end unit testing of the back-end integrations (User Traveler Profile, Account Code, Funding Organization, and Status Return Integrations).

eTravel is one of the original 24 eGovernment initiatives outlined by President Bush in July of 2001. The effort is designed to make better use of information technology to make government more efficient, reduce paperwork and improve government response time to citizens. As a result, FedTraveler.com will be implemented to give NASA online booking, travel authorization, and travel vouchering capabilities.

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Anyone who knows a little bit about effective communications understands the benefits of talking face-to-face, and that’s just what NASA’s Integrated Asset Management’s Property, Plant and Equipment Module Project (IAM/PP&E) team is set to do this September. The Agency Project team hosts representatives from NASA’s ten Centers for its quarterly face-to-face meeting this month in Huntsville, Alabama. The teams are scheduled for two and a half days of meetings, activities and project planning designed to facilitate the best possible conditions for project coordination and implementation in the months ahead.

But it’s a busy fall for the IAM/PP&E team and their outreach won’t stop with their face-to-face. The team is also holding their Critical Design Review, as well as providing an update to the IAM/PP&E Steering Committee, later in the month.

Meanwhile, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has provided communications and guidance to the Agency, on the management of the Capital Asset feature. Next spring, IAM/PP&E will deliver additional capabilities to NASA’s Business Systems which will improve, automate and integrate asset accounting. This particular outreach effort, which is a part of NASA’s Release 8.1, is a step towards enabling the agency to identify and track capital assets from an accounting perspective.

IAM/PP&E is scheduled for implementation with NASA’s Release of 8.2 in the spring of 2008.

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