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System Engineering Planning and Organization

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1. What is the purpose of the SEMP? When in the life cycle should it be developed? How does it relate to each of the following?

a) The PMP

b) The reliability program plan

c) The integrated logistic support plan

The purpose of the Software Engineering Management Plan is to develop the policies, procedures and structure in order to foster the support activities and engineering activities required for design and development process of the system.

Systems Engineering Management Plan is developed in the conceptual design phase of the life cycle process when the need for the management related requirement arises.

SEMP relationship with each of the following:

a) The PMP: PMP document will explain about the deliverables, overall tasks with its inputs, approach for performing tasks and its output and schedule required to complete project. The program management plan will serve as the input to SEMP. Based on the information available in PMP, SEMP will be able to prepare a top level plan required for managing systems engineering effort.

b) The Reliability Program Plan: Reliability program plan is developed to identify reliability requirements for the system though reliability analysis and to ensure that the system will meet its requirements. Reliability Program Plan is combined with SEMP, in smaller projects. For larger projects reliability program plan is made separately. SEMP will define responsibilities and authorities to each of the specialty program plans (one among them is reliability program plan) to prevent them from overlapping.

c) Integrated Logistic Support Plan: Integrated logistic support plan focuses on the system’s operations and the maintenance required for system to sustain. ILSP covers all the applicable logistics...

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... in the later stages of planning as project planning progresses. CWBS is developed in accordance with SOW and includes PWBS for products which are to be furnished by contractor.

SWBS includes all the activities of the project such as design and development, production, utilization and support. Program budgets and program schedules are also prepared in various levels of SWBS. All these information is necessary when outsourcing the project work, in order to build the right product and on time and within budget. So If I am outsourcing the work related to project and if I am responsible for specifying the work requirements for supplier then I would use SWBS.

References

Blanchard B. S. & Fabrycky W. J. (2011), Systems Engineering and Analysis, New Jersey:

Prentice Hall.

Blanchard B. S. (2008), Systems Engineering Management, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons

Inc.

In this essay, the author

  • Describes the purpose of the semp, when it should be developed, and how it relates to the following.
  • Explains the pmp document will explain deliverables, overall tasks, approach for performing tasks and its output and schedule required to complete project. the program management plan will serve as the input to semp.
  • Explains the reliability program plan, which is developed to identify reliability requirements for the system through reliability analysis.
  • Describes the engineering practices that must be employed in developing and maintaining the heater system. semp will serve as guideline of procedures that developers and engineers must follow.
  • Explains that functional analysis and design is the process of transforming the requirements analyzed in requirements analysis stage into functional architecture for the system.
  • Explains that design synthesis is a process in which the requirements and functional architecture are transformed to design and implementation of systems requirements.
  • Explains that the first step of project is to identify scope and prepare a plan for project. stakeholders of the project cannot skip initiation phase.
  • Explains the main goal of requirements development phase is to produce requirements and operations concept for project.
  • Explains that developers begin with the preliminary design phase once the requirements are established. various design documents are produced in this phase.
  • Explains that detailed design scope will be determined based on amount of work to be accomplished. engineers refine physical architecture and functional architecture in this phase.
  • Explains that actual system is built in the implementation phase of the development life cycle. testing is necessary for system releases. engineers refine test plans and assist with unit testing and integration testing activities.
  • Explains the goal of system test phase is to verify the newly developed system to check whether it meets all the needs of customers.
  • Concludes that in this phase the project verifies the functionality of system in operational environment.
  • Explains that stakeholders are people who have stake in the project's results. it is necessary to keep stakeholders informed of project status during all phases of development life cycle.
  • Describes the roles of customers, systems engineer, software engineering lead, task leader, configuration management analyst and operations lead.
  • Describes the various processes involved in risk management, security, document management and requirements management.
  • Explains the purpose of the software engineering management plan to develop policies, procedures, and structure in order to foster the support activities and engineering activities required for design and development process of a system.
  • Explains integrated logistic support plan, which focuses on the system's operations and the maintenance required for system to sustain.
  • Explains the purpose of the work breakdown structure (wbs) and the difference between it and cwbs.
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