Program/Project Management Resource List #8

Revised Dec. 2006

Proper budgeting and cost control are vital ingredients of a successful project. When a project is insufficiently funded, the quality of work and the speed of the project suffer. On the other hand, the project manager must be careful to keep costs under control, so that Americans will receive the most value for their money. This bibliography provides an overview of budgeting, cost analysis, cost reduction, and cost effectiveness.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.

NASA Policies

The following procedural requirements can be accessed by anyone through the NASA Online Directives Information System, except as noted.

NASA Policy Directive 1000.0: Strategic Management and Governance Handbook

 

NASA Policy Directive 1050.1G: Authority to Enter Into Space Act Agreements

 

NASA Policy Directive 1200.1D: NASA Internal Control and Accountability

 

NASA Policy Directive 1210.F: Acceptance and Use of Monetary Gifts and Donations by NASA

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 1210.1A: Procedures for Use of Monetary Gifts and Donations by NASA

 

NASA Policy Directive 1210.2: NASA Surveys, Audits, and Reviews Policy

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 5100.4B: Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (NASA/FAR Supplement) [48 CFR 1800-1899]

 

NASA Policy Directive 5101.1E: Requirements for Legal Review of Procurement Matters

 

NASA Policy Directive 5101.32C: Procurement

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 5101.33A: Procurement Advocacy Programs

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 5800.1E: Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 5810.1: Standard Format for NASA Research Announcements and other Announcements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 5900.1: NASA Spare Parts Acquisition

 

NASA Policy Directive 9800.1A: NASA OIG Programs

 

NASA Policy Directive 9910.1: GAO/NASA OIG Audit Liason, Resolution, and Followup

 

ASTM E2516: Standard Classification for Cost Estimate Classification System.

This standard can be accessed by NASA employees and contractors through http://standards.nasa.gov/. Members of the public may contact their local libraries for the availability of this item.

Books

Abdel-Khalik, A. Rashad. The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting. Malden, MA: Blackwell Business, 1998

HF5621 .B54 1998 READY-REFERENCE

 

Bartle, John R. Evolving Theories of Public Budgeting. Amsterdam; New York: JAI, 2001

HJ2005 .E95 2001 BOOKSTACKS

 

Boden, Daryl G., and Wiley J. Larson. Cost-Effective Space Mission Operations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996

TL782 .C57 1996 BOOKSTACKS

 

Cappels, Thomas M. Financially Focused Project Management. Boca Raton, FL: J. Ross Pub., 2004

HD69 .P75 C37 2004 PPM-STACKS

 

Cooper, Robin, and Regine Slagmulder. Target Costing and Value Engineering. Portland, OR: Productivity Press; Montvale, N.J.: IMA Foundation for Applied Research, 1997

TS168 .C66 1997 BOOKSTACKS

 

European Space Agency. Publications Division. Space Project Management: Cost and Schedule Management/ECSS Secretariat, ESA-ESTEC, Requirements and Standards Division. Noordwijk, The Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, 1996

HD69 .P75 S634 1996 PPM-STACKS

 

Greenberg, Joel S. Economic Principles Applied to Space Industry Decisions. Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003

TL507 .P75 V.201 BOOKSTACKS

 

Hoban, Francis T., William W. Lawbaugh, and Edward J. Hoffman. Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?: A Case Study of NASA's Pioneer Effort at Change. Malabar, FL: Krieger Pub. Co., 1997

TL521.312 .H587 1997 BOOKSTACKS

 

Kaplan, Robert S., and Robin Cooper. Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998

HF5686 .C8 K26 1998 BOOKSTACKS

 

McCurdy, Howard E. Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

TL796.5 .U5 M37 2001 BOOKSTACKS

 

Miau, Jiun-Jih, and Richard Holdaway. Reducing the Cost of Spacecraft Ground Systems and Operations. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

TL4015 .R44 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

Morse, Wayne J., James R. Davis, and Al L. Hartgraves. Management Accounting: A Strategic Approach. Australia; Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Pub., 2000

HF5635 .M67 2000 PPM-STACKS

 

Murman, Earll M. Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative. New York: Palgrave, 2002

TL685.3 .L38 2002 BOOKSTACKS

 

National Academy of Public Administration. Principal Investigator-Led Missions in Space Science. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Public Administration, 2005

QB500.266 .U6 P83 P75 2005 BOOKSTACKS

 

National Research Council. Committee on Technology for Space Science and Applications of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. Reducing the Costs of Space Science Research Missions: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997

QB500.266 .U6 R43 1997 BOOKSTACKS

 

Phillips, William R., et al. Public Dollars, Common Sense: New Roles for Financial Managers. Washington, D.C.: Coopers and Lybrand, L.L.P., 1997

HD3857 .P83 1997 BOOKSTACKS

 

Stenzel, Catherine and Joe. From Cost to Performance Management: A Blueprint for Organizational Development. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley and Sons, 2003

HD31 .S73 2003 PPM-STACKS

 

Stewart, Rodney D., Richard M. Wyskida, and James D. Johannes (eds). Cost Estimator's Reference Manual. New York: Wiley, 1995.

TA183 .C64 1995 PPM-STACKS

 

Tierney, Cornelius E. Government Auditing: Standards and Practices. Chicago: CCH, 2000

HJ9801 .T55 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. Congressional Budget Office. A Budgetary Analysis of NASA's New Vision for Space Exploration. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Budget Office, 2004

TL521.312 .B83 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. General Accounting Office. NASA: Lack of Disciplined Cost-Estimating Processes Hinders Effective Program Management. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2004

TL521.312 .N363 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

__________. NASA: Sound Management and Oversight Key to Addressing Crew Exploration Vehicle Project Risks. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2006

TL521.3 .C74 2006 PPM-STACKS

 

Wertz, James Richard, and Wiley J. Larson, (eds.). Reducing Space Mission Cost. Torrance, CA: Microcosm Press; Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996

TL872 .R44 1996 BOOKSTACKS

 

__________. Space Mission Analysis and Design. El Segundo, CA: Microcosm ; Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer, 1999

TL790 .S732 1999 BOOKSTACKS and ENG-TRAIN

Articles and Reports

Arena, Mark V., et al. Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs, ADA455020, Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA, 2006

(ADA455020: (2006) DTIC)

 

__________. Impossible Certainty: Cost Risk Analysis for Air Force Systems, ADA451312, Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA, 2006

(ADA451312: (2006) DTIC)

 

Atkins, Kenneth L. "Mr. Stardust's Wild Ride", ASK Magazine, no. 14 (Oct. 2003), p. 16-19

 

Cross, Lisa. "Benefiting from Costing and Pricing Tools", Graphic Arts Monthly, vol. LXXVI, no. 7 (July 2004), p. 32-34

Available through Wilson Select Plus

 

Denison, Dwight V., and L. Christopher Standora. "Management-Oriented Cost Analysis: An Application to New York State Courts", Public Performance and Management Review, vol. XXIX, no. 3 (March 2006), p. 307-339

 

Eden, Colin, Fran Ackermann, and Terry Williams. "The Amoebic Growth of Project Costs", Project Management Journal, vol. XXXVI, no. 2 (June 2005), p. 15-27

 

Graves, Roger. "Open and Closed: The Monte Carlo Model", PM Network, vol. XV, no. 12 (Dec. 2001), p. 48-52

 

Hamaker, Joseph W. and Axel Roth. "Improving Space Project Cost Estimating with Engineering Management Variables", in ASEM Twenty-Second National Conference. Engineering Management: It's About People, Huntsville, AL, 11-13 Oct. 2001

(20020015704: (2001) NASD)

 

Hihn, J., et al. "Cost Model Validation: A Technical and Cultural Approach", in Third ISPA/SCEA International Meeting, Alexandria, VA, 12 June 2001

<20060031506: (2001) NASD)

 

Hope, Jeremy, and Robin Fraser. "Who Needs Budgets?", Harvard Business Review, vol. LXXXI, no. 2 (Feb. 2003), p. 108-115

 

Kwan, Eric, Hamid Habib-Agahi, and Leigh Rosenberg. "Cost Modeling for Low-Cost Planetary Missions", in Sixth IAA International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions, Kyoto, Japan, 11 Oct. 2005

<(20060042866: (2006) NASD)

 

Leach, Lary. "Schedule and Cost Buffer Sizing: How to Account for the Bias between Project Performance and Your Model", Project Management Journal, vol. XXXIV, no. 2 (June 2003), p. 34-47

 

Lee, Taesik and Peter Jeziorek. "An Exploratory Study of Cost Engineering in Axiomatic Design: Creation of the Cost Model Based on an FR-DP Map", in Third International Conference on Axiomatic Design, Seoul, South Korea, 21-24 Jun3 2004

(20040082391: (2004) NASD)

 

McCurdy, Howard E. Low-Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission. NASA/SP-2005-4536. Office of External Relations, History Division, Washington, DC; 2005

(20050159707: (2005) NTRS)

 

Winn, Sharon D. and John W. Hamcher. "NASA/Air Force Cost Model: NAFCOM", in Propulsion for Space Transportation of the Twenty-First Century, Versailles, France, 14-17 May 2002

(20020048607: (2002) NASD)

Internet Resources

Anderson, Lawrence. Office of the Inspector General. 3 Nov. 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oig/hq/Welcome.html

 

Cyr, Kelley. Cost Estimating Web Site. 21 Jan. 2005 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/index.htm

 

Dunbar, Brian. Independent Program Assessment Office. 7 April 2006. [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://ipao.larc.nasa.gov/index.cfm

 

__________. Office of the Chief Financial Officer. 9 March 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocfo/home/

 

__________. Office of the Chief Financial Officer. Budget Information and Documents. 9 March 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocfo/budget/index.html

 

__________. Office of the Chief Financial Officer. References. 9 March 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocfo/references/index.html

 

__________. Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation. 9 March 2006. [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/pae/home/index.html

 

Looney, Kelly. Program/Project On-Line Library and Resource Information System (POLARIS). 20 Oct. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

https://polaris.nasa.gov/

 

Marucci, Susie. Office of Procurement. 17 Feb. 2004 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/

 

Short, Joyce. NASA Shared Services Center. Customer Service. 29 Nov. 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.nssc.nasa.gov/customerservice/index.htm

 

South, Koby. NASA Shared Services Center. 9 May 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.nssc.nasa.gov/

 

Sullivan, Gene. Integrated Enterprise Management Program. 28 March 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://iemp.nasa.gov/

 

Turner, Janelle. Innovative Partnerships Program. 29 Nov. 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://www.ipp.nasa.gov/

 

Wilson, Tara. Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. 13 July 2006 [cited 29 Nov. 2006]

http://osbp.nasa.gov/

American Society of Professional Estimators. 30 Nov. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.aspenational.com/

 

Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering. 15 Nov. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.aacei.org/

 

Department of Defense. Defense Cost and Resource Center. 1 May 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://dcarc.pae.osd.mil/

 

Department of Defense. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. 21 Sept. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.acq.osd.mil/

 

Government Accountability Office. Business Modernization: Disciplined Processes Needed to Better Manage NASA's Integrated Financial Management Program. 21 Nov. 2003 [cited 6 Dec. 2006]

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-04-118

 

__________. Business Modernization: NASA's Challenges in Managing Its Integrated Financial Management Program. 21 Nov. 2003 [cited 6 Dec. 2006]

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-04-255

 

__________. Business Modernization: NASA's Integrated Financial Management Program Does Not Fully Address Agency's External Reporting Issues. 21 Nov. 2003 [cited 6 Dec. 2006]

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-04-151

 

__________. Space Acquisitions: Improvements Needed in Space Systems Acquisitions and Keys to Achieving Them. 6 April 2006 [cited 6 Dec. 2006]

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-06-626T

 

International Society of Parametric Analysts. 8 Nov. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.ispa-cost.org/index.htm

 

Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.sceaonline.org/

 

Space Systems Cost Analysis Group. 15 May 2003. [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://sscag.saic.com/

 

US Air Force. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller). 15 Aug. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

https://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/

 

US Army. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller). Office of the Secretariat. 11 Oct. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.asafm.army.mil/secretariat/asafm.asp

 

US Navy. Naval Center for Cost Analysis. 30 Nov. 2006 [cited 30 Nov. 2006]

http://www.ncca.navy.mil/index.cfm