A Focus Area for the Systems Engineering Management Category

Description:

Plan and Organize involves the identification of needs and constraints at the program level. The results of planning may be classified in terms of technical requirements and program requirements. These requirements define the technical and program structure required to bring a system into being. Planning includes: program requirements definition; identification, integration and scheduling of all engineering functions and tasks; work breakdown structure (WBS) development; organizational structure definition (as related to the program); and descriptions of, or references to, key policies and procedures. Planning is documented in a technical management plan which sometimes references other planning documents.

The technical management plan relates the technical requirements to program requirements, providing the structure to guide and control the integration of engineering activities needed to achieve the systems engineering objectives consistent with a top level management plan for the program. The technical management plan addresses planning for three basic areas:

• Technical program planning & control,

• Systems engineering process,

• Engineering specialty integration.

The technical management plan includes an event-driven plan and a calendar-based plan.

An event-driven plan is generated that lays out the core technical portion of the program, process descriptions, and significant events. The event-driven plan documents the significant accomplishments necessary to complete the program's efforts and ties each accomplishment to a key program event. This event driven plan is included (sometimes by reference) as part of the technical management plan. Each...