Ch8 Tailoring Process and Application of Systems Engineering Flashcards
What is the purpose of the Tailoring process?
To adapt external standards in the context of the organizational processes to meet the needs of the organization.
What are some of the common traps in tailoring?
- reuse of a tailored baseline from another system without repeating the tailoring process;
- using all processes and activities “just to be safe”;
- using a pre-established tailored baseline;
- failure to include relevant stakeholders.
What is a Product Line Management (PLM)?
A combination of product, process, management, and organization to migrate from single-system engineering to a product line approach.
What are the advantages of PLM?
1) decreased development cost;
2) increased quality;
3) enlarged product catalog.
What is Product Line Scoping and what is it based on?
Product line scoping defines the main features of the product line, which provide sufficient reuse potential to justify the setting up of the evolution of a product line organization. It is mainly based on:
- the market analysis;
- the SE process assessment;
- the products analysis;
- the industrial process analysis;
- the acquisition strategies analysis;
- the technology analysis.
What are services?
Services are activities that cause a transformation of the state of an entity (a person, product, business, region, or nation) by mutually agreed terms between the service provider and the customer.
Which are the fundamental attributes of a service system?
1) togetherness,
2) structure,
3) behavior, and
4) emergence.
What is a “service-level agreement” (SLA)?
It represents the negotiated service-level requirements of the customer and establishes valid and reliable service performance measures to ensure that service providers meet and maintain the prescribed quality of service, user-perceived performance, and degree of satisfaction of the user.
What is the definition of “enterprise”?
An enterprise consists of a purposeful combination (e.g. a network) of interdependent resources (e.g. people, processes, organizations, supporting technologies, and funding) that interact with each other to coordinate function, share information, allocate funding, create workflows, and make decisions and their environment(s) to achieve business and operational goals through a complex web of interactions distributed across geography and time.
Its primary purpose is to create value for society, for other stakeholders, and for the organizations that participate in that enterprise.
What is the difference between enterprise and organization?
An enterprise includes not only the organizations that participate in it but also people, knowledge, and other assets such as processes, principles, policies, practices, doctrine, theories, beliefs, facilities, land, intellectual properties and so on. An organization is a view of the enterprise.
What are the inputs of the Tailoring process?
- Organization strategic plan
- Life cycle needs
What are the activities of the Tailoring process?
- Identify and record the circumstances that influence tailoring
- Take due account of the life cycle structures recommended or mandated by standards
- Obtain input from parties affected by the tailoring decisions
- Make tailoring decisions
- Select life cycle processes that require tailroing
What are the outputs of the Tailoring process?
- Organization tailoring strategy
- Project tailoring strategy
