Tailoring Process and Application of Systems Engineering Flashcards
What is the principle behind tailoring?
The principle behind tailoring is to ensure that the process meets the needs of the project while being scaled to the level of rigor that allows the system life cycle activities to be performed with an acceptable level of risk.
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What is the purpose of the Tailoring process?
To adapt the processes of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 to satisfy particular circumstances or factors.
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What needs to be considered when contemplating if and how to incorporate a new or updated external standard into an organization?
- Understand the organization;
- Understand the new standard;
- Adapt the standard to the organization (not vice versa);
- Institutionalize standards compliance at the “right” level;
- Allow for tailoring.
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What are the factors that influence tailoring at the project level?
- Stakeholders and customers
- Project budget, schedule, and requirements
- Risk tolerance
- Complexity and precedence of the system
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What are the common traps in the tailoring process?
- 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
and so on…
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What is product line management (PLM) ?
It is a combination of product, process, management, and organization to migrate from single-system engineering to a product line approach.
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Product line scoping is mainly based on?
The market analysis, the SE process assessment, the product analysis, the industrial process analysis, the acquisition strategies analysis, and the technology analysis.
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What are the fundamental attributes of a service system?
Togetherness, structure, behavior, and emergence.
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What are the two things an enterprise must do?
- Develop things within the enterprise to serve as either external offerings or as internal mechanisms to enable achievement of enterprise operations
- Transform the enterprise itself so that it can most effectively and efficiently perform its operations and survive in its competitive and constrained environment
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Is it true that an enterprise is equivalent to an organization?
No, 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 property, and so on.
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What are the three types of organizations of interest to an enterprise?
Businesses, projects, and teams.
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What process areas can be used to close the gap between enterprise SE and traditional SE?
Strategic technical planning, enterprise architecture, capabilities-based planning analysis, technology planning, enterprise analysis and assessment.
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What are VSMEs?
VSMEs are defined as organizations that have a small number of employees, many times less than 50 and as few as 1.
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A collection of four profiles can provide a progressive approach to serving most VSMEs, what are they?
Entry, basic, intermediate, and advanced profile.
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