CH2 Cards -Part 2 dos Flashcards
The purpose of the______________ process is to produce and coordinate effective and workable plans.
Project Planning
The_________________ Processes are concerned with managing the resources and assets allocated by organization management and with applying them to fulfill the agreements into which the organization or organizations enter.
Technical Management
The ________________ Processes relate to the technical effort of projects, in particular to planning in terms of cost, timescales and achievements, to the checking of actions to help ensure that they comply with plans and performance criteria, and to the identification and selection of corrective actions that recover shortfalls in progress and achievement.
Technical Management
________________ Processes are used to establish and perform technical plans for the project, manage information across the technical team, assess technical progress against the plans for the system products or services, control technical tasks through to completion, and to aid in the decisionmaking process.
Technical Management
____________ process starts with the identification of a new potential project and continues after the authorization and activation of the project until its termination. The Project Planning process is performed in the context of the organization, and in compliance with the Life Cycle Model Management process.
Project planning
The ______________ process identifies the project objectives, technical activities, interdependencies, resource requirements, risks and opportunities, and management approach for the technical effort. The planning includes the estimates of needed resources and budgets and the determination of the need for project enablers, including specialized equipment, facilities, and specialists during the project to improve efficiency and effectiveness and decrease cost overruns. This requires coordination across the set of processes to develop a set of consistent planning for all activities.
Project Planning
________________ process establishes the direction necessary to enable execution of the project and the assessment and control of the project progress. It identifies the details of the work and the right set of personnel, skills, infrastructure, and facilities with a schedule for needed resources from within and outside the organization.
Project Planning
Common approaches and tips for the _______________ process:
? The SEMP is an important outcome
? The standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 to aid in writing a SEMP.
? Software Development Plan. (See ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-5.)
? The creation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is an activity where SE and Project Management ____________ .
? Taking shortcuts in the planning process reduces the effectiveness of other Technical Management Processes.
? Agile project management methods also include planning-the cycles may be ____________ and more frequent, but planning is an essential process.
? Defining project objectives, value, and the criteria for success are critical to guide project decision making.
? Incorporate risk assessment early in the planning process
? Global consistency between these artifacts.The SEMP should reference, or provide a link to, the PMP.
Project Planning, intersect, shorter
The _________is the key technical management plan that integrates
the SE effort.
SEMP
The ________ defines how the total set of engineering processes will be organized, structured, and conducted and how it will be controlled to provide a product that satisfies stakeholder requirements.
SEMP
The ________ contains the following:
? organization of how SE interfaces with the other parts of the organization
? responsibilities and authority of the key engineering roles
? clear system boundaries and scope of the system
? key, technical objectives, assumptions, and constraints ( or link to them)
? infrastructure support and resource management (i.e., facilities, tools, IT, personnel)
? technical schedule, including key milestones, decision gates, and associated criteria
? definition of the SE processes, including interaction with other engineering and project processes
? approach and methods for planning and executing the Technical Processes
? approach and methods for planning and executing the Technical Management Processes
? approach and methods for planning and executing applicable quality characteristic (QC) approaches
? major technical deliverables of the project
SEMP
The __________ 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. The schedule of tasks and dependencies helps prioritize the effort and justify requests for personnel and resources needed throughout the development life cycle.
SEMS - SE Master Schedule
The purpose of the ________________ is to hierarchically decompose constructs in manageable and understandable elements. In projects, they provide:
? a framework for ensuring that all requirements, functions, and products of the system design are identified and arranged in a logical relationship that can be traced to, and satisfy, the business and stakeholder needs;
? an identification of all activities and resources;
? a cost relationship;
? an organizational context;
? an identification, by name, within the organization of the responsible person ;
? a basis for configuration control and a basis for effective management of changes;
? a framework to help identify risks and subsequent risk management;
? a basis for financial control and interface responsibilities .
breakdown structures
The _______ serves as a reference for the identification of cost elements arranged into a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS).
WBS
_________ is a hierarchical tree of the organizational elements.
Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
The work to be carried out to reach the project objectives can be organized in a breakdown structure, as a hierarchical tree, where the lower-level activities provide more details. This is the_________________ , which is based on the FBS in the initial stages of system maturity (e.g., feasibility, conceptual design) and the PBS in the later stages.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Functions and products are organized in_________________ that have the organizational framework of a tree, such as Function Tree and Product Tree.
breakdown structures
The Function Tree also, called ___________________, is a breakdown of the functions of the required Sol into successively lower levels of its functional architecture. The Function Tree includes the technical characteristics of each function.
Functional Breakdown Structure (FBS)
The Product Tree, also called ____________________, is a breakdown of the Sol into successively lower-level details of its physical architecture (see Section 1.3.5).
Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
The purpose of the ____________________ process is to assess if the plans are aligned and feasible; determine the status of the roject, technical and process performance; and direct execution to help ensure that the performance is according to plans and schedules, within projected budgets, to satisfy technical objectives.
Project Assessment and Control
The rigor of the_______________ process is directly dependent on intrinsic characteristics of the project and the Sol, such as the complexity, urgency, and consequence of failure to deliver or failure of the Sol.
Project Assessment and Control
Project control involves both preventive and corrective actions taken to ensure that the project is performing according to plans and schedules and within projected budgets. The ____________________ process may trigger activities within Technical Management Processes.
Project Assessment and Control
Common approaches and tips for the _______________ process:
? One way to remain updated on project status is to conduct regular team meetings. Short stand-up meetings on a daily or weekly schedule.
? Projects should avoid the collection of measures that are not used in decision making.
? Good practices show that status should be concise and visual. Another useful tool is a project dashboard that provides a timely and easy summary of status.
? A template for the project status report is a good practice. This template may be included in the SEMP ( or PMP).
Project Assessment and Control
Common approaches and tips for the _______________ process:
? The Project Management Institute (PMI) provides industry-wide guidelines for project assessment, including Earned Value Management techniques.
? Project teams need to identify critical areas and control them through measurement, risk management, analysis, configuration management, and information management.
? An effective feedback control process is an essential element to enable the improvement of project performance.
? Tailoring of organization processes and procedures should not jeopardize any certifications.
? Standard ISO/IEC 24748-8 / IEEE 15288.2 (2014) is a useful reference on how to define and manage technical reviews
Project Assessment and Control
Mechanisms should be put in place to provide an integrated view of the results or artifacts in a way that the decision makers can interpret quickly and see trends and trigger points to aid decisions. Two such mechanisms are the project ____________ and the project _____________.
status report, dashboard
Technical ________ and ___________ are a foundational element of an effective SE approach
and form the backbone of robust technical assessment. Technical reviews and audits provide a venue for baselining stakeholder and system requirements, evaluating the system’s technical maturity, and identifying and assessing risks to system performance, cost, and schedule.
reviews, audits
The purpose of the _______________ process is to provide a structured, analytical framework for obectively 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.
Decision Management
The ________________process transforms a broadly stated decision situation into a recommended course of action and associated implementation plan. The process requires a decision maker with full responsibility, authority, and accountability for the decision, a decision analyst with a suite of decision tools, subject matter experts with performance models, and a representative set of end users and other stakeholders (Parnell, et al., 201
Decision Management
A well-structured _________ process will capture and communicate the impact that different value judgments have on the overall decisions and facilitate the search for alternatives that remain attractive across a wide range of value schemes.
decision
Common approaches and tips for the _______________ process:
? Since there are many decisions across the spectrum of project management, system definition, and life cycle activities, the Decision Management process is applied in conjunction with most of the Technical Management and Technical Processes.
? It is important to verify and validate the data and assumptions used in the decision analyses, since the validity of the analysis results depends on the use of valid data and assumptions, and the application of appropriate analytic methods.
Decision Management
SE practitioners face many decision situations throughout the life cycle of a project. They must choose the analytical approach that best fits the frame and structure of each decision problem. For instance, when there are “clear, important, and discrete events that stand between the implementation of the alternatives and the eventual consequences” , a _______________ is often a well-suited analytical approach, especially when the decision structure has only a few decision nodes and chance nodes. As the number of decision nodes and chance nodes grows, the this method quickly becomes unwieldy and loses some of its communicative power.
decision tree
The decision management method most employed by SE practitioners is a __________________________ (Parnell, 2016), in which an objective function is formulated to synthesize an alternative’s response across multiple, often competing, objectives. The aim is to define, measure, and assess stakeholder value and then synthesize this information to facilitate the decision maker’s search for alternatives that represent the best balance with often competing objectives.
multiple objective decision approach (MODA)
Capturing a description of the system baseline, as well as the concept of operations with some indication of system boundaries and anticipated interfaces, helps ensure the understanding of the decision context. This includes such details as the time frame allotted for the decisions, an explicit list of stakeholders, a discussion regarding available resources, and expectations regarding the type of action to be taken as a result of the decision at hand. This decicion management good practice is called _______________ a decision.
Framing
For many trade studies, the alternatives will be systems composed of many interrelated system elements. It is important to establish a meaningful product structure for the Sol and to apply this product structure consistently throughout the decision analysis. The product structure should be a useful decomposition of the elements of the Sol that explores the trade space. Each alternative is composed of specific design choices for each element. The ability to communicate the differentiating design features of the alternatives is essential. An alternative to a finite number of alternatives is _______________. It has been shown to effectively and efficiently explore the trade space (Specking, et al., 2018). This decision management good practice is called Generating ___________ Alternatives
Set-Based Design (SBD), creative
The decision team should engage subject matter experts by creating models using operational and test data along with the defined objectives, measures, and alternatives to assess performance and using structured scoring sheets. Each score sheet contains a summary description of the alternative and the scoring criteria. Ideally, the models and simulations should be integrated with the performance, value, and cost models so a design change impacts all models. This decision management good practice assesses alternatives via __________ Analysis.
Deterministic
The following are a summary of ______________ good practices.
- Framing, Tailoring, and Structuring Decisions.
- Developing Objectives and Measures.
- Generating Creative Alternatives.
- Assessing Alternatives via Detenninistic Analysis.
- Synthesizing Results.
- Identifying Uncertainty and Conducting Probabilistic Analysis.
- Accessing Impact of Uncertainty.
- Improving Alternatives.
- Communicating Trade-Offs.
- Presenting Recommendations and Implementing the Action Plan.
decision management
Using the data summarized in the objective measure consequence table, explore, understand, aggregate the data, and display results in a way that facilitates stakeholder understanding. This decision management good practice is called ______________results.
Synthesizing
It is important to identify potential uncertainty surrounding the assessed score and variables that could impact one or more scores (see Section 1.4.1). One example of uncertainty is that system concepts are described as a collection of system element design choices, but knowledge of the system element performance during system design is often incomplete. Subject matter experts can often assess an upper, nominal, and lower bound score by making three separate assessments: (i) assuming a low performance, (ii) assuming moderate performance, and (iii) assuming high performance.This decision management good practice is called Identifying __________ and Conducting __________ Analysis.
Uncertainty, Probabilistic
Decision analysis uses many forms of sensitivity analysis including line diagrams, tornado diagrams, waterfall diagrams, and several uncertainty analyses, including Monte Carlo simulation, decision trees, and influence diagrams (Parnell, et al., 2013). Monte Carlo simulations are used to identify the relative impact of each source of uncertainty on the performance, value, and cost of each alterative. This decision management best practice is called Accessing __________ of Uncertainty.
Impact
Good practice includes further analysis to mine the data generated for the first set of alternatives to reveal opportunities to modify some system element design choices to identify untapped value and reduce risk. This decision managent good practice is called Improving ____________.
Alternatives
The decision team should identify key observations regarding what stakeholders seem to want and what they may be willing to give up to achieve it. This decision management good practice is called Communicating _____________.
Trade-Offs
It is helpful to clearly describe the recommendation as an actionable task list to increase the likelihood of the decision analysis leading to some form of action showing tangible value. Decisions should be documented using digital engineering artifacts. Reports that include the analysis, decisions, and rationale are important for historical traceability and future decisions. This decision management good practice is called Presenting ___________ and Implementing the ________________.
Recommendations, Action Plan
The purpose of the ____________ process is to identify, analyze, treat and monitor the risks continually.
Risk Management