Processes for Engineering a System
The purpose of this Standard is to provide an integrated set of fundamental processes to aid a developer in the engineering or re-engineering of a system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Processes for Engineering a System
Chapter 5: Application Context
This Clause describes the application context for the requirements of this Standard. Figure 5.0 shows external enterprise and project factors that have the potential to affect, or to be affected by, project interfaces.
Figure 5.0: Context for application of this Standard
5.1 Enterprise factors
The enterprise is the context in which the process requirements of this Standard are intended to be adopted, directed, and implemented. The enterprise is the source of project start-ups and of project cancellations, and is the source of infrastructure and resource support. Enterprises respond to, as well as create, the markets for system products created by projects within the enterprise. The enterprise further manages the multiple projects within the enterprise to most effectively apply resources and use the infrastructure. The enterprise also establishes constraints of technologies used in existing product lines, as well as manufacturing and test facilities, and support service limitations that constrain project performance.
It is in this context that the enterprise prepares policies and procedures to create or cancel projects, and by which projects perform the processes of this Standard.
5.2 Project factors
5.2.1 Enterprise support
Projects create systems consistent with the business strategy of the enterprise and within the constraint of the enterprise factors cited in Subclause 5.1. Specifically, the following support is to be expected from the enterprise:
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Investment decision support, including business needs assessments, selection of new start projects, determination of project continuance, and allocation of financial resources for equipment, tools, and training;
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Agreement support, including contracting, bid and proposal...
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