CubeSat at NASA

On June 5th, BECteam’s Tom Friend and Adam Beck hosted a one-day class at NASA Research Center to show teams how to organize and “team” using scrum and Kanban specifically for Space Mission planning systems building, and operational control. Two teams learned to self-organize and rapidly iterate to build prototypes of their Cube Satellite tailored to carry out a mission involving the polar ice caps. Images below show the planning process using Scrum, the unique Space Mission Canvas, and the Chair Fly mission “launch”. Great fun & great success!

CubeSat NASA Workshop

CubeSat NASA Workshop

CubeSat NASA Workshop

CubeSat NASA Workshop

CubeSat NASA Workshop

CubeSat NASA Workshop

Class Flow

Agile CubeSat Workshop Class Flow

Start-Introductions, Who you are, what you do, Agile Experience What you expect out of this

Agile Overview

Agile in Aerospace / interactive dialog Introduction to CubeSat IceCap mission Space Mission Canvas System Interface

Hand out the cards Roadmap the mission Build a backlog Break

Paper prototype Start the sprints Sprint 1 Sprint 2 handout the mission redesign

Finish the space vehicle prototypes Sprint 3 with the ion propulsion Build Debrief Chair Fly

Question and Answer Retrospective of class & Mission & Materials

End of Day / Happy Hour

There is only about 45 minutes of seat time. Everything else is interactive and hands on.

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