Enabling Organizational Excellence
A Collection of News and Resources Highlighting Ways We're Helping Advance U.S. DOT's Strategic Priorities.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center draws upon our multimodal, multidisciplinary expertise to advance U.S. DOT’s key priorities to improve our transportation system, centering our work on the Department’s strategic goals.
We support U.S. DOT’s strategic goal of Organizational Excellence by helping our sponsors establish policies, processes, and inclusive and innovative cultures to serve communities efficiently and effectively. Our focus on Organizational Excellence is reflective in both how we approach our work and how we produce our work output for our sponsors.
See the following for a collection of resources and recent news that highlight our work and support of Organizational Excellence.
THE U.S. DOT VOLPE CENTER’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITY APPRAISED AT CMMI-DEV V2.0 MATURITY LEVEL 3
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center announced that our software development capability within our Research and Innovative Technology organization was recently appraised at Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Capability Maturity Model Integration Development (CMMI-DEV) v2.0 Maturity Level 3. CMMI is a proven, outcome-based performance model and the globally accepted standard for improving capability, optimizing business performance, and aligning operations to business goals. LEARN MORE.
THE U.S. DOT VOLPE CENTER SUPPORTED FAA REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT EFFORTS
Requirements management provided FAA Program Management Organization programs with the knowledge and tools to efficiently manage program requirements. To facilitate this, FAA partnered with U.S. DOT Volpe Center to develop workshops, review requirements, and create metrics using a detail-oriented, collaborative, and results-driven approach to deliver requirements management governance and best practices, lifecycle support, and knowledge sharing—which enabled FAA PMO to be better positioned to cost-effectively meet needs as defined and within scope. LEARN MORE.
INTRODUCING “ASK THE SOFTWARE PM EXPERTS”
We’re proud to launch our new “Ask the Software PM Experts” series to share best practices, tips, and ways to help you keep your software development projects on track: on schedule, on time, and in scope. Over the next few months, we will explore topics like project management, software development tools, resource management, transportation safety models, and the use of new tools such as ChatGPT. Our goal will be to present bite-sized insights that you can use and apply to your projects—and you can send in your questions or share feedback with our team. LEARN MORE.
HOW TO PRODUCE BETTER COST ESTIMATES FOR MEDIUM- TO LARGE-SCALE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Estimating transportation-related software projects in the government space presents specific challenges, as software tends to be more complex due to advanced logic that is needed to implement business rules related to government regulation. The U.S. DOT Volpe Center has found that for multimillion-dollar software development projects, a duration based solely on effort and resource availability must be adjusted by a factor of 1.3 to produce a realistic schedule. Moreover, the mere act of thinking about tasks almost always turns up more project work that must be estimated. LEARN MORE.
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