Chapter 5: Technical Management Processes Flashcards
Technical management processes are used 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.
What is the purpose of the Project Planning Process?
Purpose: produce and coordinate effective and workable plans
What are inputs to the purpose 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 outputs to the purpose of the Project Planning Process?
SEMP Project constraints Project infrastructure needs Project human resources WBS Project schedule Project budget Acquisition need Project planning need
What are activities for the purpose of the Project Planning Process?
Define the project
Plan the project and technical management
Activate the project
What is an SEMP?
SEMP is a top level plan for managing the SE effort. It defines how the project will organized, structured, and conducted and how the total engineering process will be controlled to provide a product that satisfies stakeholder requirements; SEMS is an essential part of the SEMP and a tool for project control bc it identifies the critical path of technical activities in the project.
What should an SEMP include?
Organization of the project and how SE interfaces with the other pasts of the organization
Responsibilities and authority of the key positions
Clear system boundaries and scope of the project
Project assumptions and constraints
Key technical objectives
Infrastructure support and resource management
Approach and methods used for planning and executing the technical processes (Ch4), technical management processes (Ch5), and applicable specialty engineering process (Ch10)
What is the purpose of Project Assessment and Control Process?
Purpose: 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 are inputs to Project Assessment and Control Process?
WBS Project budget Project schedule Procedures Reports Configuration baselines Information repository Measurement repository QM corrective actions Quality assurance evaluation report Validated requirements
What are outputs to Project Assessment and Control Process?
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
What are activities for Project Assessment and Control Process?
Plan for the project Assessment and control
Assess the project
Control the project
What is the purpose of the Decision Management Process?
Purpose: 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
What are inputs to the Decision Management Process?
Decision situation
What are activities for the Decision Management Process?
Prepare for decisions
Analyze the decision information
Make and manage decisions
What are outputs to the Decision Management Process?
Decision management strategy
Decision report
Decision record
What the purpose of the Risk Management Process?
Purpose: identify, analyze, treat and monitor the risks continually.
What are inputs to the Risk Management Process?
Candidate risks and opportunities
What are outputs to the Risk Management Process?
Risk management strategy
Risk report
Risk record
What are activities for the Risk Management Process?
Plan risk management Manage the risk profile Analyze risks Treat risks Monitor risks
What are the four risk categories?
Technical
Cost
Schedule
Programmatic
What is the purpose of the Configuration Management Process?
Purpose: manage and control system elements and configurations over the lifecyle. CM also manages consistency between a product and its associated configuration definition.
What are inputs to the Configuration Management Process?
Candidate configuration items
Project change requests
What are outputs to the Configuration Management Process?
Configuration management strategy
Configuration baselines
Configuration management report
Configuration management record
What are activities for the Configuration Management Process?
Plan configuration management Perform configuration identification Perform configuration change management Perform configuration status accounting Perform configuration evaluation Perform release control
What is the purpose of the Information Management Process?
Purpose: generate, obtain, confirm, transform, retain, retrieve, disseminate and dispose of information to designated stakeholders; Information management plans, executes, and controls the provision of information to designated stakeholder that is unambiguous, complete, verifiable, consistent, modifiable, traceable, and presentable.
