Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Part 1
Systems engineering organizations are often created for just one project.
What do you think are the key items and issues that need to be implemented to manage a system engineering organization created for a project implementation?
Consider the following in your response:
The major aspects of organizing and staffing a team.
Processes that are needed
How the project is staffed
Where personnel will be located
How personnel will be trained
Tools that will be needed
Part 2
For the second part of your discussion, you will work as a team to choose a Systems Engineering Management Plan format.
In the systems engineering world, a systems engineering management plan (SEMP) is used to guide the systems engineering effort. As a class, research, propose, discuss, and agree upon a template for the SEMP that you will use to produce your project. At a minimum, the agreed-upon SEMP must have the following information:
Title page
Executive Summary
Document History
Table of Contents
Introduction
Purpose
Document Overview
System Overview
Project Schedule
References
System Engineering Processes
Project Organization
Environments
Decision-Making Process
System Engineering Model
System Engineering Processes
Configuration Management
Requirements Engineering
Functional Analysis
Design Processes
Development Processes
Software
Hardware
System Integration
Build Management
Verification
Validation
Specialty Engineering
System Deployment
Site preparation
System installation
System checkout
User training
Support engineer training
Product Support
Maintenance
Logistics support
Disposal
The final SEMP template can have additional information and can have the identified information in an order other than that identified above.
Within the Discussion Board area, post your Systems Engineering Management Plan outline. This will require you to research and propose a template for the SEMP. Upload your proposed SEMP template.
Respond to your classmates’ proposed templates, and as a class, decide on the standard SEMP template that the class will use.
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
