Test Prep Flashcards
What year was INCOSE established?
INCOSE was established in 1990.
What year was ISO 15288 written (standard that the SE Handbook is based on)?
ISO 15288 was established in 2002.
How many years of experience do you need to be an ESEP?
You need 25 years of experience to be an ESEP.
What is Conway’s Law and how do organizations avoid pitfalls?
Conway’s law suggests that “organizations which design systems…are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of those organizations.”
Organizations should facilitate communications, streamline controls, and simplify paperwork.
Define recursion.
Recursion is the repeated application of and interaction of processes at successive levels in the system structure.
Define iteration.
Iteration is the repeated application of and interaction between two or more processes at a given level in the system structure or hierarchy.
What is the purpose of the Concept life cycle stage?
- Define the problem space through exploratory research and concept selection.
- Characterize the solution space.
- Identify stakeholders’ needs.
- Explore ideas and technologies.
- Refine stakeholders’ needs.
- Explore feasible concepts.
- Propose viable solutions.
What is the purpose of the Development life cycle stage?
- Define/refine system requirements.
- Create solution description - architecture and design.
- Implement initial system.
- Integrate, verify, and validate system.
What is the purpose of the Production life cycle stage?
- Produce systems.
2. Inspect and verify.
What is the purpose of the Utilization life cycle stage?
Operate system to satisfy users’ needs.
What is the purpose of the Support life cycle stage?
Provide sustained system capability.
What is the purpose of the Retirement life cycle stage?
Store, archive, or dispose of the system.
What are the benefits of iteration and recursion approaches?
- Helps to ensure communication that accounts for ongoing learning and decisions.
- Facilitates the incorporation of learning from further analysis and process application as the technical solution evolves.
What are the benefits of sequential methods?
- Provide an underlying framework where it is necessary to coordinate large teams of people working in multiple companies.
- Predictability, stability, repeatability, and high assurance.
What are the benefits of Incremental and Iterative Development (IID) methods?
- Allows a project to provide an initial capability followed by successive deliveries to reach the desired SOI.
- Provides rapid value and responsiveness.
- Useful when requirements are unclear from the beginning.
- Examples: Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM)
What are the Technical Management Processes?
(Top box on diagram, 8 processes)
- Project Planning (PP)
- Project Assessment and Control (PAC)
- Decision Management (DM)
- Risk Management (RM)
- Configuration Management (CM)
- Measurement (MEAS)
- Information Management (INFOM)
- Quality Assurance (QA)
What are the Organizational Project Enabling Processes?
Left box on diagram, 6 processes)
- Portfolio Management (PM)
- Infrastructure Management (INFRAM)
- Life Cycle Model Management (LCMM)
- Human Resource Management (HRM)
- Quality Management (QM)
- Knowledge Management (KM)
What are the Agreement Processes?
(Bottom left box on diagram, 2 processes)
- Acquisition (ACQ)
- Supply (SUP)
What are the technical processes?
(Middle V on diagram, 13 processes)
- Business or Mission Analysis (BMA)
- Stakeholder Needs and Requirements Definition (SNRD)
- System Requirements Definition (SRD)
- Architecture Definition (AD)
- Design Definition (DD)
- Implementation (IMPL)
- Integration (INT)
- Verification (VER)
- Transition (TRAN)
- Validation (VAL)
- Operation (OPER)
- Maintenance (MAINT)
- Disposal (DISP)
What are the process controls?
(Top of the big diagram, 4 controls)
- Applicable laws, regulations, and standards
- Agreements
- Project direction
- Project control requests
What are the project enablers?
(Bottom of diagram, 4 enablers)
- Knowledge management system
- Project infrastructure
- Organization infrastructure
- Organization policies, procedures, and standards
What is the purpose of the Life Cycle Model Management (LCMM) process?
Organizational Project-Enabling process to define, maintain, and assure availability of policies, life cycle processes, life cycle models, and procedures for use by the organization with respect to the scope of [ISO;IEC;IEEE 15288].
What are the inputs for the LCMM process?
4 inputs:
- Organization strategic plan
- Organization tailoring strategy (TLR)
- Quality management evaluation report (QM)
- QM corrective actions (QM)
What are the activities for the LCMM process?
3 activities
- Establish the process
- Assess the process
- Improve the process
What are the outputs of the LCMM process?
7 outputs
- Life cycle model management plan
- Organization policies, procedures, and assets
- Life Cycle Models
- Organizational process performance measure needs
- Organizational process performance measure data
- LCMM report
- LCMM record
What is the purpose of the Infrastructure Management (INFRAM) process?
Organizational Project-Enabling process to provide the infrastructure and services to projects to support organization and project objectives throughout the life cycle.
What are the inputs to the Infrastructure Management (INFRAM) process?
3 inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Organization infrastructure needs
- Project infrastructure needs.
What are the activities for the Infrastructure Management (INFRAM) process?
2 activities
- Establish the infrastructure
- Maintain the infrastructure
What are the outputs of the Infrastructure Management (INFRAM) process?
5 outputs
- Infrastructure management plan
- Organization infrastructure
- Project infrastructure
- INFRAM report
- INFRAM record
What is the purpose of the Portfolio Management (PM) process?
Organizational project-enabling process to initiate and sustain necessary, sufficient and suitable projects in order to meet the strategic objectives of the organization.
What are the inputs to the Portfolio Management (PM) Process?
4 Inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Organization portfolio
- Supply strategy
- Project status report
What are activities for the Portfolio Management (PM) Process?
3 activities
- Define and authorize projects
- Evaluate the portfolio of projects
- Terminate projects
What are the outputs of the Portfolio Management (PM) Process?
7 Outputs
- Portfolio Management Plan
- Organization Infrastructure Needs
- Project Direction
- Project Portfolio
- Organization Lessons Learned
- Portfolio Management Report
- Portfolio Management Record
What is the purpose of the Human Resources Management (HRM) process?
Organizational Project-Enabling process to provide the organization with necessary human resources and to maintain their competencies, consistent with business needs.
What are the inputs to the Human Resources Management (HRM) process?
3 Inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Project portfolio
- Project human resources needs
What are the activities for the Human Resources Management (HRM) process?
3 activities
- Identify skills
- Develop skills
- Acquire and provide skills
What are the outputs of the Human Resources Management (HRM) process?
4 outputs:
- Human resource management plan
- Qualified personnel
- Human resource management report
- Human resource management record
What is the purpose of the Quality Management (QM) process?
Organizational Project-Enabling process to to assure that products, services and implementations of the quality management process meet organizational and project quality objectives and achieve customer satisfaction.
What are the inputs to the Quality Management (QM) process?
5 inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Customer satisfaction inputs
- QA plan
- QA report
- QA evaluation report
What are the activities for the Quality Management (QM) process?
3 activities
- Plan quality management
- Assess quality management
- Perform quality management correction action and preventive action.
What are the outputs of the Quality Management (QM) process?
6 outputs
- QM plan
- QM guidelines
- QM report
- QM corrective actions
- QM evaluation report
- QM record
What is the purpose of the Knowledge Management (KM) process?
Organizational Project-enabling process to create the capability and assets that enable the organization to exploit opportunities to re-apply existing knowledge.
What are the inputs to the Knowledge Management (KM) process?
4 Inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Organization lessons learned
- Project lessons learned
- Records
What are the activities of the Knowledge Management (KM) process?
4 activities
- Plan knowledge management
- Share knowledge and skills throughout the organization
- Share knowledge assets throughout the organization
- Manage knowledge, skills, and knowledge assets
What are the outputs of the Knowledge Management (KM) process?
3 outputs
- KM Plan
- KM report
- KM system
What is the purpose of the Tailoring (TLR) process?
To adapt the processes of [ISO;IEC;IEEE 15288] to satisfy particular circumstances or factors.
What are the inputs to the Tailoring (TLR) process?
2 Inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Life cycle models
What are the activities of the Tailoring (TLR) process?
5 activities
- 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 the life cycle processes that require tailoring.
What are the outputs of the Tailoring (TLR) process?
2 outputs
- Organization Tailoring strategy
- Project tailoring strategy
What is the purpose of the Acquisition (ACQ) process?
An agreement process to obtain a product or service in accordance with the acquirer’s requirements.
What are the inputs to the Acquisition (ACQ) process?
5 inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Acquisition need
- Enabling system requirements
- Acquisition reply
- Acquired system
What are the activities for the Acquisition (ACQ) process?
5 activities
- Prepare for the acquisition
- Advertise the acquisition and select the supplier
- Establish and maintain an agreement
- Monitor the agreement
- Accept the product or service.
What are the outputs for the Acquisition (ACQ) process?
7 outputs
- Acquisition strategy
- Request for supply
- Acquisition agreement
- Accepted system or system element
- Acquisition payment
- Acquisition report
- Acquisition record
What is the purpose of the Supply (SUP) Process?
An agreement process to provide an acquirer with a product or service that meets agreed requirements.
What are the inputs to the Supply (SUP) Process?
5 inputs
- Organization strategic plan
- Request for Supply
- Supply payment
- Validated system
- Disposed system
What are the activities for the Supply (SUP) Process?
5 Activities
- Prepare for the supply
- Respond to a tender
- Establish and maintain an agreement
- Execute the agreement
- Deliver and support the product or service.
What are the outputs of the Supply (SUP) Process?
6 outputs
- Supply strategy
- Supply response
- Supply agreement
- Supplied system
- Supply report
- Supply record
What is the purpose of the Project Planning (PP) process?
A technical management process to produce and coordinate effective and workable plans.