The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) overlooks airspace management, regulation, and licensing in the aviation industry, research, and development. According to Transportation (2020), the FAA oversees programs aimed at transforming, modernizing, and sustaining the National Airspace System (NAS). The projects under FAA take the forms of administrative, construction, computer software development, and planning design (Wei et al. 2021). Project administration involves planning, tracking, and reporting responsibility using the Scrum methodology of project management. The FAA administration department reports to the federal government. Construction management utilizes the Waterfall form of project management to develop airports and other crucial aviation resources (Choi 2019). The computer software development project is dedicated to scheduling, planning, and delivering software and web products using the Kanban methodology.
The FAA project life cycle is divided into five stages: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing. The projects are initiated at the executing phase. All the requirements, risks and deriverables are determined at the planning stage and the project schedule is created (Ermakova et al. 2019). Monitoring and control involve inspection of the progress activities (Butt et al., 2019). The final phase of the project is the closing phase to acknowledge the achievement of the project and officially disband the team and project. The project life cycle defines and guides the steps for completing a project.
The Waterfall methodology of construction management is the best to foresee the construction of modern aviation facilities at FAA. Each of the phases in waterfall construction management has specific deliverables to simplify the review process. Constructions in aviation have well-defined requirements with no expected changes hence suitable for the Waterfall method of project management (Thesing et al. 2021). With clear objectives, Waterfall development gets everyone up to speed to execute projects within the given time scales and with no financial surprises.
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