Technical Management Processes Flashcards
What processes are included within technical management processes?
It includes project planning, project assessment and control, decision management, risk management, configuration management, information management, measurement, and quality assurance.
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What is the purpose of the Project Planning process?
To produce and coordinate effective and workable plans.
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What is SEMP?
The SEMP 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.
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When shall the SEMP be prepared?
A SEMP should be prepared early in the project, submitted to the customer (or to management for in-house projects), and used in technical management for the concept and development stages of the project or the equivalent in commercial practice.
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Who will be involved in the creation of the SEMP?
Participants in the creation of the SEMP should include senior systems engineers, representative subject matter experts, project management, and often the customer.
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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.
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Which process does inputs “WBS” “project budget” and “project schedule” of 5.2 come from?
All come from 5.1 project planning process.
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Is it always true that “what gets measured gets done”?
No, projects should avoid the collection of measures that are not used in decision making.
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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.
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What decision situations (opportunities) that are commonly encountered in development stage?
Select system architecture, system element, lower-level elements, test and evaluation methods.
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5.3 can be executed by a resourced decision team, could you please think of people needs to be involved in such team?
A decision maker with full responsibility, authority, and accountability for the decision at hand, a decision analyst with a suite of reasoning tools, subject matter experts with performance models, and a representative set of end users and other stakeholders.
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What are the common analytical approach used by systems engineers?
Decision tree, MODA, trade study.
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What are the three assessments the subject matter expert can make to assess an upper, nominal, and lower bound measure response?
- Assuming a low performance,
- Assuming moderate performance,
- Assuming high performance.
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What is the purpose of the Risk Management process?
To identify, analyze, treat and monitor the risks continually.
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What are the definitions of “risk” and “opportunity” defined by E.H. Conrow?
Traditionally, risk has been defined as the likelihood of an event occurring coupled with a negative consequence of the event occurring. Opportunity is the potential for the realization of wanted, positive consequences of an event.
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Is it possible to reduce risks down to zero if risk management is well performed?
No, risk cannot be reduced to zero, but to achieve a proper balance between risk and opportunity.
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What are the typical strategies for coping with risk?
Transference, avoidance, acceptance, or taking action to reduce the anticipated negative effects of the situation.
What are the two components of the measurement of risk?
- The likelihood that an event will occur
- The undesirable consequence of the event if it does occur
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What are the four categories of the risk?
Technical risk, cost risk, schedule risk and programmatic risk
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What are the three key risk management process activities once a risk management strategy and risk profile have been established?
Analyze risks, treat risks, and monitor risks
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Give some examples of risk assessment techniques.
Brainstorming, checklists, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), Monte Carlo simulation, and Bayesian statistics and Bayes nets.
What the four basic approaches to treat risk?
- Avoid the risk through change of requirements or redesign;
- Accept the risk and do no more;
- Control the risk by expending budget and other resources to reduce likelihood and/or consequence;
- Transfer the risk by agreement with another party that it is in their scope to mitigate. Look for a partner that has experience in the dedicated risk area.
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What steps can be we take to avoid or control unnecessary risks?
Requirements scrubbing, selection of most promising options, staffing and team building.
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Risk avoidance is insufficient for high-risk technical tasks, what supplemented approaches can we take?
- Early procurement;
- Initiation of parallel developments;
- Implementation of extensive analysis and testing;
- Contingency planning
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