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June 2006
CMM gets a jump on SIT Testing in June
From the Integrated Enterprise Management Program, CMM is ready to advance toward its scheduled implementation of October 2006, following a successful Test Readiness Review (TRR) in June. CMM, together with the SAP Version Update Project (SVU), held the TRR concurrently, Monday June 12 and Tuesday June 13, 2006 at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Multiple milestone reviews are currently scheduled for CMM between now and October, when the projects is set to achieve go-live. The CDR and the TRR reviews were attended by the Financial Steering Group (FSG), SVU and CMM Project Team Leads and various functional experts, members of the Procurement Steering Committee, and a MSFC led independent review team. CMM’s SIT Pass 1, the next scheduled test, is set to begin in early July. The project’s status at the conclusion of the testing later in the month will drive the project’s future go-live plans.
Contract Management Module has spent the past several months reworking schedules and reassigning implementation plans, after the project’s Wave One was delayed. The original June 8th, 2006 date has been rescheduled for at least October of this fall. SIT Pass 1 ran until early March, and SIT Pass 2 also concluded in May. All NASA’s ten centers were included in the participation plans, and entrance and exit criteria were established for each test pass. Testing includes a good examination of all CMM functionality excluding: information delivery, simultaneous actions against a contract line item, performance testing, full security testing.
Once implemented, CMM will provide a comprehensive tool to support contract/grant writing, contract/grant administration, procurement workload management, and data reporting/management for NASA. The functionality provided by CMM will provide added efficiency to procurement processes, and will be integrated with existing IEMP components.
To keep up to date on the latest information generated from the CMM team log on to http://procurement.nasa.gov/cmm/index.shtml.
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eTravel launches into the Realization Phase
The Integrated Enterprise Management Program’s (IEMP) eTravel project is set for take off into the Realization Phase this summer. The project’s Preliminary Design Review (PDR) which took place the week of June 3, 2006, as well as the project’s Quarterly Risk Review (QRR) were both important hurdles for the team to clear. With the two prerequisites achieved, the eTravel team was prepared for high reviews from NASA’s Non-Advocate Review (NAR) on June 5, 2006 which earned them the go ahead into the next phase of the project. A NAR is an independent review of projects conducted at the end of a formulation phase. This important look at the project gives NASA management an assessment of the readiness status for the project. This ok must be gained before the project team can proceed into the implementation phase. (The corresponding IEMP phase is the blueprinting phase.) Once the review process is successfully completed, a recommended project baseline can be established.
The eTravel team was also carefully regarded by their monthly Steering Committee Review on June 21st, 2006.
eTravel is one of the original 24 eGovernment initiatives outlined by President Bush in July of 2001. The effort was designed to make better use of information technology and to eliminate billions of dollars in excessive federal spending, reduce paperwork and improve government response time to citizens. As a result, FedTraveler.com, an integrated application, will be implemented to give NASA online booking, travel authorization, and travel vouchering capabilities.
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i-View users enjoy system’s face lift
The Integrated Enterprise Management Program’s portal, the i-View, is featuring a brand new look this month. The tech team unveiled its major upgrade in mid-June which delivered the system’s face lift. The much anticipated look allows users the ease of new technical agility, as well as a hip redesign to the home page. i-View’s four thousand plus users are enthusiastic about the new changes.
The i-View team is still working to bring as many NASA people into the portal community. As part of the effort, the tech team built and implemented upgrades and new pages for the myCenter effort (specific pages for the centers to use within their communities) and new project pages.
The i-View team also participated in the 2006 Center Business Process Lead (CBPL) Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Information showcasing i-View’s unique features, as well as how the myCenter pages can be more effectively utilized were presented at the summit. More than 75 people attended the session.
Notably, the i-View team also launched a program events calendar. Many users have been clamoring to see a program calendar since i-View’s debut. Users are hoping for a better, more centralized way to track of the programs’ events within the Integrated Enterprise Management Community.
i-View allows the ease of single sign on access (SSO) to all IEM applications and many other applications employees need to use, such as Employee Express, WebTads, USA Jobs, and the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP.) SSO will simplify and reduce, but not totally eliminate, user ID and password management requirements. i-View also provides the means for the IEM Program Office to communicate effectively to all IEM users without relying on email. In the coming months, the i-View team will continue to focus on adding new users and additional functionality. Looking ahead, the team will lend added support to the Contract Management Module Project (CMM), and i-View plans to play host to the SMRT reports which will soon be moved to a production environment.
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SVU celebrates major milestones in the merry month of June
From the Integrated Enterprise Management Program (IEMP), the SAP Version Update Project (SVU) celebrated a huge stamp of approval in June. The ok to begin SAP data migration activities and the System Integration Testing (SIT) came after the delta Test Readiness Review (TRR) held in Huntsville, Alabama on June 12 & 13, 2006. The TRR was held together with the Contract Management Module Project (CMM.)
SVU’s SIT Pass 1 will run through the early part of July, and like the TRR, will be carried out concurrently with the CMM Project. The testing will include SVU, CMM and interfacing applications to procurement’s PRISM system, as well as finances in the SAP systems.
SVU, part of the IEMP’s Competency Center’s Release 7.1 is targeting an October release date. In preparation, the SVU Process Team continued to define end user roles during the month of June. They team also developed end user procedures (EUPs) and job aids (JAs). The SVU Change Management team also was able to complete Training Strategy, Training Needs Assessment and Training Curriculum. The materials were all rolled out to the NASA Centers on June 2nd. Content for training materials, as well as early training outlines are currently under way.
The Systems, Applications, and Product (SAP) Version Update Project has been established to update Core Financial to mySAP ERP 2005 for NASA’s business enterprise system. SVU will expand to allow improvements to NASA’s financial recording and reporting, support the goal of achieving financial management integrity, and expand Core Financial functionality to better meet the needs of the project management community.
Specifically, SVU will enhance capabilities with a new Budgetary Ledger, new Budget Control System, new Payment Update, and new Year End processing. Targeted process reengineering will incorporate recommendations from both the Financial Integration Team (FIT) Program/Project Management Information Task Team and the FIT/One NASA Distribution Transfer Task Team, and will include improving program/project management information (without compromising sound financial management principles), as well as re-designing funds control and funds distribution processes.
Notably, the SVU team is NASA’s first project to use i-View, the IEMP’s portal, as their primary source of communications.
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