About ASK Magazine
Background
The Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) and ASK Magazine help NASA managers and project teams accomplish today's missions and meet tomorrow's challenges by sponsoring knowledge-sharing events and publications, providing performance enhancement services and tools, supporting career development programs, and creating opportunities for project management and engineering collaboration with universities, professional associations, industry partners, and other government agencies.
ASK Magazine grew out of the previous academy, Academy of Program/Project Leadership, and its Knowledge Sharing Initiative, designed for program/project managers to share best practices and lessons learned with fellow practitioners across the Agency. Reflecting APPEL's new responsibility for engineering development and the challenges of NASA's new mission, ASK includes articles that explore engineering achievements as well as insight into broader issues of organizational knowledge, learning, and collaboration. We at APPEL Knowledge Sharing believe that stories recounting the real-life experiences of practitioners communicate important practical wisdom. By telling their stories, managers, scientists, and engineers share valuable experience-based knowledge and foster a community of reflective practitioners. The stories that appear in ASK are written by the “best of the best” project managers and engineers, primarily from NASA, but also from other government agencies, academia, and industry. Who better than a project manager or engineer to help a colleague address a critical issue on a project? Big projects, small projects — they're all here in ASK.
You can help ASK provide the stories you need and want by letting our editors know what you think about what you read here and by sharing your own stories. To submit stories or ask questions about editorial policy, contact Don Cohen, Managing Editor. 781-860-5270.
For inquiries about APPEL Knowledge Sharing programs and products, please contact the Knowledge Sharing Project Manager, Rosie Robinson, ASRC Management Services, 6303 Ivy Lane, Suite 160, Greenbelt, MD 20770. 301-837-9067.
