The Intersection of Risk Mitigation and Innovation: The planning and development of the data management system for Nancy Grace Roman in a hybrid project management environment.

This paper focuses on the intersection of traditional project management and agile development methodologies to satisfy both NASA's risk mitigation and reporting needs for a "Class A" mission and the Space Telescope Science Institute development team's needs to explore and develop innovative solutions for ingest, processing, and distribution of data from the future Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This paper will focus on how traditional project management rigor and the agile mindset coexist within the project. It will show how we have been successful in both involving and insulating our development teams from external project management requirements through the use of processes, tools, and automation, while still allowing for regular NASA and Institute tracking of Earned Value Management and Risk Management. The tools used are off-the-shelf and the methods used need not be unique to the Institute. Both can provide a similar framework for other projects facing similar situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]