Q-1) What would be your suggestion to the Project Manager on the launching of Space flight?

Should he give an order to fire or not? Justify

Ans-1)

Critical Issues that emerged after Critical events readiness review:

 Risk were reduced to 3 but the likelihood was still 3 leading to an overall heat map score of 9
indicating Yellow risk.
 Landing site risks.
 20% probability exists that the lander would not land successfully.

Benefits of delaying the mission:

 Possibility of reducing the risk associated with landings as higher resolution images will be
available thus reducing the overall risk to below 5%.
 Delay would give them time to mitigate other risk which are unknown at present.
 Failure of this project can have catastrophic effects on the prospects of future funding
because the previous MARS mission was also unsuccessful.

Hence, our suggestion to the Project manager on the launching of Space Flight mission must be
delayed to mitigate known and unknown risks.
Q-3) Is Lee a good project risk manager?

Ans-3)

Yes, in our opinion Lee is a good project risk manager.

Relevant Experience:

 Prior association with the Vikings project of NASA that engineered the first successful
landing of spacecraft on Mars.
 Also, a part of the Galileo project which was also an inter planetary mission to Jupiter

This will enable him to have the better understanding of the risks associated with this project and
possible solutions to mitigate them.

Past Association with the Organization:

 Having worked with NASA in the past, he had a fairly good understanding of the organization
culture.
 Realizing the issue that the intellectuals from top universities face, he introduces the
concept of ‘Intellectual Confrontation’.

Strong academic Background:

 He was a graduate from University of Texas and MIT and holds strong credentials.

Because of the aforementioned reasons, we believe that Lee was a good Project Risk Manager.