Ch5 Technical Management Processes Flashcards

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What is the purpose of Technical Management processes?

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To establish and evolve plans, to execute the plans, to assess actual achievement and progress against the plans and to control execution through to fulfillment. Individual processes may be invoked at any time in the life cycle and at any level.

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What is the purpose of the Project Planning process?

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To produce and coordinate effective and workable plans.

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What is the “lifespan” of the Project Planning process?

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It starts with the identification of a new potential project and continues after the authorization and activation of the project until its termination.

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What is the main responsibility of Project Planning?

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It establishes the direction and infrastructure necessary to enable the assessment and control of the project progress and identifies the details of the work and the right set of personnel, skills, and facilities with a schedule for needed resources from within and outside the organization.

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What is the System Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)?

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It is the top-level plan for managing the SE effort. It defines how the project will be organized, structured, and conducted and how the total engineering process will be controlled to provide a product that satisfies stakeholder requirements. It provides guidance to a project and helps the organization avoid unnecessary discussions about how to perform SE.

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What is the SE Master Schedule (SEMS)?

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It is an essential part of the SEMP and a tool for project control, because it identifies the critical path of technical activities in the project. Verification activities may also receive special attention in the SEMS.

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What is the purpose of the Project Assessment and Control process?

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To assess if the plans are aligned and feasible; determine the status of the project, technical and process performance; and direct execution to ensure that the performance is according to plans and schedules, within projected budgets, to satisfy technical objectives.

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What is the purpose of the Decision Management process?

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To provide a structured, analytical framework for objectively identifying, characterizing and evaluating a set of alternatives for a decision at any point in the life cycle and select the most beneficial course of action.

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Which one is the most commonly used decision management method?

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The trade study. It often employs some form of MODA (multiple objective decision analysis).

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What is the purpose of the Risk Management process?

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To identify, analyze, treat and monitor the risks continually.

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What is the purpose of the Configuration Management process?

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To manage and control system elements and configurations over the life cycle. CM also manages consistency between a product and its associated configuration definition.

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What is the purpose of a Configuration Identification (CI)?

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To uniquely identify the elements within a baseline configuration.

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What is the purpose of the Information Management process?

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To generate, obtain, confirm, transform, retain, retrieve, disseminate and dispose of information, to designated stakeholders.

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What is the purpose of the Measurement process?

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To collect, analyze, and report objective data and information to support effective management and demonstrate the quality of the products, services, and processes.

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What is a leading indicator?

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A measure for evaluating the effectiveness of how a specific activity is applied on a program in a manner that provides information about impacts that are likely to affect the system performance or SE effectiveness objectives.

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How are Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) defined?

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The “operational” measures of success that are closely related to the achievement of the mission or operational objective being evaluated, in the intended operational environment under a specified set of conditions; i.e. how well the solution achieves the intended purpose. They are stated from the acquirer point of view.

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How are Measures of Performance (MOPs) defined?

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The measures that characterize physical or functional attributes relating to the system operation, measured or estimated under specified testing and/or operational environment conditions. They should be derived from or provide insight for MOEs or other user needs.

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What is the purpose of the Quality Assurance process?

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To help ensure the effective application of the organization’s Quality Management process to the project. It’s a set of activities throughout the entire project life cycle necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service conforms to stakeholder requirement or that a process adheres to established methodology.

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What’s the difference between leading indicators and SE measures?

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Conventional SE measures provide status and historical information, while leading indicators use an approach that draws on trend information to allow for predictive analysis (forward looking).

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What are the inputs of the Project planning process?

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  • Organization strategic plan
  • Source documents
  • Supply response
  • Project portfolio
  • Life cycle models
  • Project direction
  • Strategy documents
  • Project tailoring strategy
  • Project lessons learned
  • Documentation tree
  • QM corrective actions
  • Qualified personnel
  • Quality assurance plan
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What are the activities of the Project planning process?

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  • Define the project
  • Plan project and technical management
  • Activate the project
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What are the outputs of the Project planning process?

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  • SEMP
  • Project constraints
  • Project infrastructure needs
  • Project human resources needs
  • WBS
  • Project schedule
  • Project budget
  • Acquisition need
  • Project planning record
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What are the inputs of the Project assessment and control process?

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  • WBS
  • Project budget
  • Project schedule
  • Procedures
  • Reports
  • Configuration baselines
  • Information repository
  • Measurement repository
  • QM corrective actions
  • Quality assistance evaluation report
  • Validated requirements
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What are the activities of the Project assessment and control process?

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  • Plan for project assessment and control
  • Assess the project
  • Control the project
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What are the outputs of the Project assessment and control process?

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  • Project assessment and control strategy
  • Project performance measures needs
  • Project performance measures data
  • Project status report
  • Project control requests
  • Project change requests
  • Project lessons learned
  • Project assessment and control record
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What are the inputs of the Decision management process?

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  • Decision situation
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What are the activities of the Decision management process?

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  • Prepare for decisions
  • Analyze the decision information
  • Make and manage decisions
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What are the outputs of the Decision management process?

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  • Decision management strategy
  • Decision report
  • Decision record
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What are the inputs of the Risk management process?

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  • Candidate risk and opportunities
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What are the activities of the Risk management process?

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  • Plan risk management
  • Manage the risk profile
  • Analyze risks
  • Treat risks
  • Monitor risks
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What are the outputs of the Risk management process?

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  • Risk management strategy
  • Risk management report
  • Risk record
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What are the inputs of the Configuration management process?

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  • Candidate configuration items
  • Project change requests
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What are the activities of the Configuration management process?

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  • Plan configuration management
  • Perform configuration identification
  • Perform configuration change management
  • Perform configuration status accounting
  • Perform configuration evaluation
  • Perform release control
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What are the outputs of the Configuration management process?

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  • Configuration management strategy
  • Configuration baselines
  • Configuration management report
  • Configuration management record
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What are the inputs of the Information management process?

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  • Candidate information items
  • Project change requests
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What are the activities of the Information management process?

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  • Prepare for information management
  • Perform information management
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What are the outputs of the Information management process?

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  • Information management strategy
  • Information repository
  • Information management report
  • Information management record
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What are the inputs of the Measurement process?

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  • Measurement needs
  • Measurement data
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What are the activities of the Measurement process?

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  • Prepare for measurement
  • Perform measurement
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What are the outputs of the Measurement process?

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  • Measurement strategy
  • Measurement repository
  • Measurement report
  • Measurement record
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What are the inputs of the Quality assurance process?

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  • Quality management guidelines
  • Quality management plan
  • Quality management report
  • QM corrective actions
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What are the activities of the Quality assurance process?

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  • Prepare for quality assurance
  • Perform product or service evaluations
  • Perform process evaluations
  • Manage QA records and reports
  • Treat incidents and problems
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What are the outputs of the Quality assurance process?

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  • Quality assurance plan
  • Quality assurance report
  • Quality assurance evaluation report
  • Quality assurance record
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How many technical management processes are there and which ones are they?

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8;
Project planning;
Project assessment and control;
Decision management;
Risk management;
Configuration management;
Information management;
Measurement;
Quality assurance;