An Innovative Approach to Schedule Management on the F/A-22 Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP): Demonstration of Critical Chain Project Management

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dc.contributor.authorCasey, Robert Jamesen
dc.contributor.committeechairKronenberg, Philip S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBadawy, Michael K.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDickey, John W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWamsley, Gary L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWolf, James F.en
dc.contributor.departmentCenter for Public Administration and Policyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:12:19Zen
dc.date.adate2005-05-27en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:12:19Zen
dc.date.issued2005-05-16en
dc.date.rdate2005-05-27en
dc.date.sdate2005-05-20en
dc.description.abstractThis multiple-case-based dissertation contributes to the stream of literature on the organizational innovation process by examining Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) as an innovation with the potential to address an important schedule planning and execution performance gap in DOD weapon system development programs. The contextually different Integrated Product Team case studies in DOD's F/A-22 fighter aircraft weapons system acquisition program are: manufacturing assembly, manufacturing process, test operations, and supplier product development. Rich descriptions of the case studies are developed by the author, a senior Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company systems engineer in a role that merged participant, observer, change agent and champion (POCAC). Analysis distinguishes between Program and Operational levels of organizational structure and focuses on the innovation process through use of the author-designed Casey Hybrid Innovation Process (CHIP) model based on Rogers' stages heuristic. Substantively, research demonstrates that in key areas of the F/A-22 program, proper application of the innovative Critical Chain Project Management process can generate and achieve development schedules sometimes substantially better than traditional approaches; improper application will lead to mixed results or rejection. The research contributes to knowledge in the field of organizational innovation by demonstrating use of the CHIP model in the huge, geographically dispersed and extremely complex organization of the largest DOD weapon system acquisition program of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The research reflects Program leadership's important role in the top-down initiation and support of an innovation, even while choosing (by policy) not to force use at the Operational level. At the Operational level, details show that IPT implementations and results of the CCPM innovation vary.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-05202005-143545en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202005-143545/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/27812en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspart01casey-Phd-Dissertation-final.pdfen
dc.relation.haspart02-s05-334-IRB-exemption.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectProject Managementen
dc.subjectOrganizational Innovationen
dc.subjectCritical Chain Project Management Weapon System Acen
dc.subjectSchedule Managementen
dc.titleAn Innovative Approach to Schedule Management on the F/A-22 Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP): Demonstration of Critical Chain Project Managementen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic Administration and Public Policyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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