Ch5 Technical Management Processes Flashcards
What is the purpose of Technical Management processes?
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.
What is the purpose of the Project Planning process?
To produce and coordinate effective and workable plans.
What is the “lifespan” of the Project Planning process?
It starts with the identification of a new potential project and continues after the authorization and activation of the project until its termination.
What is the main responsibility of Project Planning?
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.
What is the System Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)?
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.
What is the SE Master Schedule (SEMS)?
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.
What is the purpose of the Project Assessment and Control process?
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.
What is the purpose of the Decision Management process?
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.
Which one is the most commonly used decision management method?
The trade study. It often employs some form of MODA (multiple objective decision analysis).
What is the purpose of the Risk Management process?
To identify, analyze, treat and monitor the risks continually.
What is the purpose of the Configuration Management process?
To manage and control system elements and configurations over the life cycle. CM also manages consistency between a product and its associated configuration definition.
What is the purpose of a Configuration Identification (CI)?
To uniquely identify the elements within a baseline configuration.
What is the purpose of the Information Management process?
To generate, obtain, confirm, transform, retain, retrieve, disseminate and dispose of information, to designated stakeholders.
What is the purpose of the Measurement process?
To collect, analyze, and report objective data and information to support effective management and demonstrate the quality of the products, services, and processes.
What is a leading indicator?
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.
How are Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) defined?
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.
How are Measures of Performance (MOPs) defined?
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.
What is the purpose of the Quality Assurance process?
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.
What’s the difference between leading indicators and SE measures?
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).
What are the inputs of the Project planning process?
- 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
What are the activities of the Project planning process?
- Define the project
- Plan project and technical management
- Activate the project
What are the outputs of the Project planning process?
- SEMP
- Project constraints
- Project infrastructure needs
- Project human resources needs
- WBS
- Project schedule
- Project budget
- Acquisition need
- Project planning record
What are the inputs of the Project assessment and control process?
- WBS
- Project budget
- Project schedule
- Procedures
- Reports
- Configuration baselines
- Information repository
- Measurement repository
- QM corrective actions
- Quality assistance evaluation report
- Validated requirements
What are the activities of the Project assessment and control process?
- Plan for project assessment and control
- Assess the project
- Control the project
